26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

Read full chapter

26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
    for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.(A)

Read full chapter

19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Read full chapter

19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you(A) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.(B)

Read full chapter

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

Read full chapter

On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.(A) We are not trying to please people(B) but God, who tests our hearts.(C)

Read full chapter

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Read full chapter

You adulterous(A) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(B) means enmity against God?(C) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(D)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.

They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

Read full chapter

They are from the world(A) and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

Read full chapter