1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come
from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don’t
have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war.
You don’t have, because you don’t ask. 3 You ask, and don’t
receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for your
pleasures. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know
that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to
be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you
think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns
jealously”? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it 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 double-minded. 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your
laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble
yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a
brother and 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 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who
are you to judge another?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city,
and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain.” 14 Whereas you
don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For
you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and
do this or that.” 16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such
boasting is evil. 17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do
it, to him it is sin.
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