James 4

1 From whence come wars and fightings among you
A ⟨among you, and from whence fightings⟩; ℵB ⟨and from whence fightings among you⟩
? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet
BA omit; ℵ ⟨and⟩
 ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
ℵBA ⟨lusts,⟩
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know
ℵBA ⟨Ye adulteresses. Know⟩
 ye not that the friendship of the
ℵ ⟨this⟩
 world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God
ℵ ⟨if therefore any one will be a friend of the world, there is enmity with God⟩
.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist
ℵBA ⟨But resist⟩
 the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and
ℵA omit
 weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble
ℵ ⟨Therefore humble⟩
 yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren
A ⟨my brethren⟩
. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and
ℵBA ⟨or⟩
 judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver
ℵBA ⟨lawgiver and judge⟩
, who is able to save and to destroy: who
ℵBA ⟨but who⟩
 art thou that judgest another
ℵBA ⟨thy neighbour⟩
?
13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or
A ⟨and⟩
 to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there
A omit
 a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For
ℵB omit
 what is your life? It is even a vapour
ℵ ⟨life⟩; A ⟨life? Ye are a vapour⟩; B ⟨life? For ye are a vapour⟩
, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
James 3
James 5
About the Pointing

The text of the Coverdale Psalter follows the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer. The pointing, suitably adapted, is taken from Charles Macpherson, Edward C. Bairstow, and Percy C. Buck, The English Psalter (Novello & Co., 1925).