¹Where do wars and fightings amongst you come from ? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members ?

²You lust , and don’t have . You murder and covet , and can ’t obtain . You fight and make war . You don’t have , because you don’t ask.

³You ask, and don’t receive , because you ask with wrong motives , so that you may spend it on your pleasures .

⁴You adulterers and adulteresses , don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God ? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God .

⁵Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain , “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously ”?

⁶But he gives more grace . Therefore it says , “God resists the proud , but gives grace to the humble .”[#Proverbs 3:34]

⁷Be subject therefore to God . Resist the devil , and he will flee from you .

⁸Draw near to God , and he will draw near to you . Cleanse your hands , you sinners. Purify your hearts , you double-minded .

⁹Lament, mourn , and weep . Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom .

¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord , and he will exalt you .

¹¹Don’t speak against one another , brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law . But if you judge the law , you are not a doer of the law but a judge .

¹²Only one is the lawgiver , who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another ?

¹³Come now , you who say , “Today or tomorrow let ’s go into this city and spend a year there , trade, and make a profit .”

¹⁴Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life ? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

¹⁵For you ought to say , “If the Lord wills , we will both live , and do this or that .”

¹⁶But now you glory in your boasting . All such boasting is evil .

¹⁷To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it , to him it is sin.