James 4

ABU^{(i) 1} FROM whence are wars, and from whence are fightings among you? Are they not from hence, from your lusts that war in your members? ² Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and can not obtain; ye fight and war. 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 adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore desires to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵ Do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, the spirit he made to dwell in us has jealous longings? ⁶ But he gives the more grace. Wherefore 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 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 into mourning, and your joy into heaviness. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. ¹¹ Do not speak against one another, brethren. He that speaks against his brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. ¹² One is the lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. Who art thou that judgest thy neighbor? ¹³ Come now, ye that say: To-day and to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend one year there, and buy and sell, and get gain; ¹⁴ (whereas ye know not what belongs to the morrow; for what is your life? for ye are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away;) ¹⁵ instead of saying: If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. ¹⁶ But now ye glory in your boastings. All such glorying is evil. ¹⁷ Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.