1 W hence wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

¶ Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

2 y e desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

Ye covet and have not; ye murder, and have envy and cannot obtain; ye fight and war and have not that which ye desire because ye ask not.

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

Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your pleasures.

4 A dulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.

5 D o ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

Do ye think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?

6 a nd greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

7 b e subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 d raw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

9 b e exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

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

10 b e made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

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

11 S peak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

¶ Murmur not against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a keeper of the law, but a judge.

12 o ne is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other?

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou to judge another?

13 G o, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;

14 w ho do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

15 i nstead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

Ye ought to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall do this or that.

16 a nd now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

But now ye boast in your arrogance; all such glory is evil.

17 t o him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

Therefore sin is still in the one that knows to do good and does not do it.