1. From where [come] wars and from where [come] fightings among you+? Don't [they come] from here, [even] of your+ pleasures that war in your+ members?

2. You+ lust and don't have; so you+ kill. And you+ covet and cannot obtain; so you+ fight and war. You+ don't have, because you+ don't ask.

3. You+ ask, and don't receive, because you+ ask amiss, that you+ may spend [it] in your+ pleasures.

4. You+ adulteresses, don't you+ know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

5. Or do you+ think that in vain the Scripture says, The spirit which he made to dwell in us longingly desires to [the point of] envy?

6. But he gives more grace. Therefore [the Scripture] says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

7. Be subject therefore to God; but 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+ who lead a double life.

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 exalt you+.

11. Don't speak one against another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks 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 [only] one lawgiver and judge, the one who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you that judge your fellow man?

13. Come now, you+ who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and will gain:

14. whereas you+ don't know what will be on the next day. What is your+ life? For you+ are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

15. Instead you+ ought to say, If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.

16. But now you+ glory in your+ vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

17. To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.