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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

James 4
⁴ You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"?
⁶ But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
⁷ Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
⁹ Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
¹¹ Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.
¹² There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?
¹³ Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."
¹⁴ Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.