Verse 9
James 4:9
World English Bible
9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Original Language Text
greek
ταλαιπωρήσατε καὶ πενθήσατε καὶ κλαύσατε· ὁ γέλως ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος ⸀μετατραπήτω καὶ ἡ χαρὰ εἰς κατήφειαν·
English Translation
You have been tormented and mourned and wept; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into gloom.
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Chapter 4 Context
1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in you...
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2
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t...
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3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your ple...
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4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward G...
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5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
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6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God (Elohim) resists the proud, but gives grace to the...
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7
Be subject therefore to God (Elohim). Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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8
Draw near to God (Elohim), and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify...
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9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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11
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, s...
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12
Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
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13
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, an...
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14
Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a va...
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15
For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
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16
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
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17
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
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