James 4

Question 1

Ins

Answer 1

Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:15

Question 2

What ca

Answer 2

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
James 4:1

Question 3

You de

Answer 3

You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
James 4:2

Question 4

When you a

Answer 4

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
James 4:3

Question 5

If anyo

Answer 5

If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
James 4:17

Question 6

Or do you thi

Answer 6

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?
James 4:5

Question 7

You a

Answer 7

You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
James 4:4

Question 8

Come

Answer 8

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8

Question 9

Why, y

Answer 9

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
James 4:14

Question 10

But he

Answer 10

But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble
James 4:6

Question 11

Sub

Answer 11

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7

Question 12

Hum

Answer 12

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

James 4:10

Question 13

Now listen, you who

Answer 13

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
James 4:13

Question 14

As it is, y

Answer 14

As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
James 4:16

Question 15

Brothers and sisters, d

Answer 15

Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
James 4:11

Question 16

Grie

Answer 16

Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
James 4:9

Question 17

There is on

Answer 17

There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
James 4:12