Whence [are] wars and whence fightings among you? [Are they] not hence, from your pleasures that combat in your members?
Ye lust and have not; ye kill and are jealous, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not;
ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore shall be minded to be friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.
Or think ye that the scripture saith in vain? Doth the Spirit that took his dwelling in us long unto envy?
But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God setteth himself against haughty [men], but giveth grace to lowly.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse hands, sinners, and purify hearts, ye double-minded.
Sorrow, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned unto mourning, and [your] joy unto heaviness.
Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he will exalt you.
Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against law and judgeth law; but if thou judgest law, thou art not a doer of law but a judge.
One is the law-giver and judge that is able to save and destroy; but who art thou that judgest [thy] neighbour?
Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city here, and spend there a year, and traffic and make gain,
whereas ye know not what [will be] the morrow. Of what sort [is] your life? Why, it is a vapour that appeareth for a little and then disappeareth,
instead of your saying, If the Lord will, we shall both live and do this or that.
But now ye glory in your vauntings; all such glorying is wicked.
To one therefore knowing to do a comely [thing], and not doing [it], it is a sin to him.