Riverside(i)
1 WHENCE come wars and whence come strifes among you? Is it not from your pleasures which carry on war in your members?
2 You long for something and do not have it. You murder and envy and cannot obtain it. You battle and war. You do not have, because of your not asking.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wickedly to waste it on your pleasures.
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever chooses to be a friend to the world stands as an enemy of God.
5 Do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit which he made dwell in us long enviously?
6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.