Epistle
James 3.11-4.6
Read in context3:11Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
3:12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
3:13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
3:15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
3:16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
3:18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
4:1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
4:2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.