James 4

Which worship songs are based on James 4?

  1. Pray — Pastor Mike Jr. (2025) James 4:2

    The statement that people lack because they do not ask closely quotes James's teaching about neglected prayer.

  2. Unstoppable — Crowder (2024) James 4:7

    The bridge presents the believer's relationship with God as the basis for the Devil being driven away, closely echoing James's instruction to submit to God, resist the Devil, and see him flee.

  3. Closer to God — Anne Wilson (2022) James 4:8

    The opening directly engages James's reciprocal language about approaching God and God approaching the believer, while confessing a mistaken, performance-based understanding of that promise.

  4. Sing for Joy — Don Moen (2025) James 4:8

    The song's invitation to draw near to God reflects the sentiment found in James 4:8, which encourages believers to approach God with confidence, assuring them of His presence and response.

  5. Just To Be Close To You (Live) — CeCe Winans (2021) James 4:8

    Winans explicitly invokes the reciprocal promise that approaching God results in God approaching the worshipper, closely paraphrasing James's exhortation.

  6. Runnin' with God — 808 BEEZY (2021) James 4:8

    The song explicitly cites this verse and applies its command by describing deliberate movement toward greater proximity to God.

  7. Waiting (Live) — LO Worship (2025) James 4:8

    The song explicitly references the idea that if we draw near to God, He will draw near to us, which is a direct quote from James 4:8.

  8. DROP! — Forrest Frank (2025) James 4:10

    The lyrics reference the concept of humility and elevation, echoing the sentiment found in James 4:10, which states that those who humble themselves will be exalted.

  9. Your Will (Wait) — ALIA LARA (2024) James 4:13-15

    The singer conditions her future plans and actions on the Lord’s will rather than presuming control over her path, closely reflecting James’s instruction to submit intended actions to God’s will.

  10. hollow — Jaisua (2024) James 4:13-14

    The warning about not knowing tomorrow closely reflects James's teaching that human beings cannot presume upon the future because life is brief and uncertain.

  11. — [DASH] — Crowder (2024) James 4:14

    The song directly adopts James's image of human life as vaporous and briefly present, using it to emphasize mortality and the urgency of living purposefully.

  12. a life worth dying — Josiah Queen (2024) James 4:14

    The song describes human life as vapor-like and exceedingly brief, closely echoing James's warning about life's transience and the uncertainty of tomorrow.

  13. It Ain't Safe — KB (2024) James 4:14

    The description of life as vapor closely restates James's warning that human life is a mist that appears briefly and then vanishes.

  14. Satisfied — Ryan Ellis (2024) James 4:14

    The description of human life as a briefly appearing vapor closely paraphrases James's warning about life's transience.

  15. Talk to Me Nice (feat. S.O.) — KB & S.O. (2023) James 4:14

    S.O. characterizes human life as vapor, directly invoking James's image of life's brevity and uncertainty.

James 4 (King James Version)

1 From whence come wars and 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 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.

4 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.

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 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 weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and 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, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even 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.