1 W hence wars and whence fightings among you? not thence,—from your pleasures, which war in your members?

2 Y e lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

3 Y e ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume in your pleasures.

4 A dulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

5 T hink ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

6 B ut he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against proud, but gives grace to lowly.

7 S ubject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 D raw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse hands, sinners, and purify hearts, ye double-minded.

9 B e wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to heaviness.

10 H umble yourselves before Lord, and he shall exalt you.

11 S peak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against brother, or judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judgest law, thou art not doer of law, but judge.

12 O ne is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou who judgest thy neighbour?

13 G o to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

14 y e who do not know what will be on the morrow, ( what your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

15 i nstead of your saying, If the Lord should will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

16 B ut now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

17 T o him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.