4 From
whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of
your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye
lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye
fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye
ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon
your lusts. 4 Ye
adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of God. 5 Do
ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in
us lusteth to envy? 6 But
he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but
giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit
yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw
nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners;
and purify your hearts, ye 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 shall lift you up. 11 Speak
not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother,
and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law:
but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There
is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest
another? 13 Go
to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and
continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas
ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even
a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For
that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But
now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore
to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.