¹ Where do wars come from, and fighting among you? Don't they come far from here, from your lusts that war in your own body? ² You lust, for what you not don't have: you kill, and desire to have, what you cannot+ obtain: you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you do not ask. ³ You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend it on your lusts. ⁴ You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that the friendship with the world is hostility with God? Whoever+ therefore is+ a friend of the world is the enemy of God. ⁵ + Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit who dwells in us longs+ jealously? ⁶ But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists 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 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up. ¹¹ Speak not evil one of another, brothers. He who speaks evil of his 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. ¹² There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you to judge another? ¹³ Go now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue+ there a year, and buy and sell+ , and profit: ¹⁴ Yet you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is just a vapour, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. ¹⁵ Instead you should say, If the Lord wills it, we will live+ , and do+ this, or that. ¹⁶ But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. ¹⁷ Therefore to him who knows what is good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.