← James
- A. 1 "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts"
- B. 2 "Ye 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"
- A'. 3 "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts"
Section 2 (4:4-5)
- A. 4a "Ye adulterers and adulteresses"
- B. 4b "the friendship of the world is enmity with God / whosoever will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God"
- A'. 5 "The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy"
Section 3 (4:6-10)
- A. 6 "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble"
- B. 7 "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil"
- C. 8 "Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded"
- B'. 9 "Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep"
- A'. 10 "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord"
Section 4 (4:11-12)
- A. 11a "Speak not evil one of another"
- B. 11b "speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law"
- B'. 11c "if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge"
- A'. 12 "who art thou that judgest another?"
Section 5 (4:13-16)
- A. 13 "ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city...and get gain"
- B. 14a "ye know not what shall be on the morrow"
- C. 14b "what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away"
- B'. 15 "ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that"
- A'. 16 "ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil"
Conclusion (4:17)
17 "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."