1 W here do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?

Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

2 Y ou lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Y ou ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

4 A dulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

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

Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

6 B ut He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” Humility Cures Worldliness

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

7 T herefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

9 L ament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

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

10 H umble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. Do Not Judge a Brother

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

11 D o not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 T here is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another? Do Not Boast About Tomorrow

One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

13 C ome now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”;

Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

14 w hereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

15 I nstead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.

16 B ut now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

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

To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.