James 4 New Translation

His Great mercy

Verse 1

From where among you does all the quarreling and fighting come? It’s not from above but from your passions of the son of darkness that is inside of your flesh because you are choosing to be his soldier.

Verse 2

You desire the power we have but do not desire the perfection that lets us wield it and so you do not have and so then you covet and murder us and yet still you do not have the power you seek. You also fight and go to war and still you do not have because you do not ask the Son of Light as we have taught you.

Verse 3

You ask and do not receive because you ask so that you can cause pain to others that you may get pleasure from watching others suffer and so this consumes your heart and mind.

Verse 4

Adulteresses!!! Remember that friendship with the world is hostility toward the Father of the Children of Light! Therefore, whosoever chooses to be a friend of the world is designated as an enemy of the Father of the Children of Light.

Verse 5

You judge the Scripture that says the following, as worthless: “The spirit of deceit of the enemy that comes down to dwell among us desires greatly to corrupt you!” The spirit of deceit goes into the hearts of men and woman when they are lead from The Way and worship and serve anything or anyone other than YAHUWAH.

Verse 6

But greater is the charity He gives us. Therefore, it says: “The Father of the Children of Light extends His help and charity to the rebels that have chosen humility so they may also become the Light, but to the proud He will not give them a share of His inheritance nor will He establish them in safety.”

Verse 7

Therefore, submit and obey the Father of the Children of Light. However, resolutely establish that you completely oppose the nature of Death, the son of darkness, and it will be vanquished.

Verse 8

Become intimately close with the Father of the Children of Light and He will become intimately close to you. Those of you who are on the fence because you have been hardened by the suffering you have endured and you don’t know if it was inflicted by YAHUWAH or not, therefore you haven’t decided who you are going to follow and worship.

Verse 9

The suffering you have endured is because we are all subject to the LAW of YAHUWAH and you have been deceived into breaking, reproaching, and hating it and therefore have received mercy in the form of a half measure of your just punishment for without reservations I can tell you that you deserve death and should be dead, but because of His great mercy you are still alive. Now that you know the truth,

Verse 10

purify your plans and your heart with His conviction to perfect obedience, so that you may cry and feel sorrow again for what you have done. Then He will turn your sorrow into laughter and your depression into joy.

Verse 11

Brothers and sisters do not scheme among each other on how you will bring down those you don’t like. The brother or sister who is planning on bring someone down has abolished the LAW in their heart. But if now you are going to judge by the law of the evil one you have refused to be a doer of the LAW of YAHUWAH, but instead its judge.

Verse 13

However, there is only One who has the power to save or destroy you and that is The Father of Children of Light because He is the One who established the LAW and is the Judge. But children of men who are you to judge and punish your neighbor by any other law?

Verse 14

For all who become a judge and not only that but judge by any other law will in the end find out that there is only One Good and True standard and when the TRUE Judge comes, they will be judged in the same manner that they judged others and they will no longer like the law they used to judge for they judged by an unfair standard and will be judged unfairly. For you cannot escape the consequences of your actions.

Verse 15

Lead those that are saying, now or the next day we will walk into the city of the children of darkness and spend a year negotiating and winning souls for the kingdom,

Verse 16

that way whoever doesn’t understand that tomorrow it’s too late to obey the Son of Light will have hope. Because right now they do not know how much life they have. For the time we have here is like a fog and we have extraordinarily little Light to see where we are going. Unless we become like the Son of Light so that the Light within clears the fog, we will eventually walk off a cliff and die for we cannot see where we are going without Light.

Verse 17

You say you oppose the Son of Light, because if the Master desired it, He would make you live since He created you and He decides if you go this way or that.

Verse 18

But you forget that He gave you free will and the choice to obey and follow Him is with you alone. But now just because you have free will to deny the KING of the Universe you are going to go around roaming and bragging of your arrogant pride? All such boasting is evil and will lead you to a day of great sorrow and crying.

Verse 19

Therefore, remember to choose to do the good the One who made you wants done and not to live to sin which is lawlessness.

Edit: updated verse 6