1From whence are wars and contentions among you? are they not hence, even of your pleasures, that fight in your members?
2Ye lust, and have not: ye envy, and desire immoderately, and cannot obtain: ye fight, and war, and get nothing, because ye ask not.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye might lay the same on your pleasures.
4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the amity of the world is the enmity of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world, maketh himself the enemy of God.
5Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us, lusteth after envy?
6But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore saith, God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
7Submit yourselves 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, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded.
9Suffer afflictions, and sorrow ye, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness.
10Cast down yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, or he that condemneth his brother, speaketh evil of the Law, and condemneth the Law: and if thou condemnest the Law, thou art not an observer of the Law, but a judge.
12There is one Lawgiver, which is able to save, and to destroy, Who art thou that judgest another man?
13Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain,
14(And yet ye cannot tell what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and afterward vanisheth away.)
15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and if we live, we will do this or that.
16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17Therefore to him that knoweth how to do well, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.