| 1 | Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? |
| 2 | You want something and do not have it; so you commit murder. And you covet something and cannot obtain it; so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have, because you do not ask. |
| 3 | You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures. |
| 4 | Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. |
| 5 | Or do you suppose that it is for nothing that the scripture says, “God yearns jealously for the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? |
| 6 | But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” |
| 7 | Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. |
| 8 | Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. |
| 9 | Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection. |
| 10 | Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. |
| 11 | Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another, speaks evil against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. |
| 12 | There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. So who, then, are you to judge your neighbor? |
| 13 | Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.” |
| 14 | Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. |
| 15 | Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.” |
| 16 | As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. |
| 17 | Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin. |
