4:1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?
4:2 You lust and do not have, so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world sets himself as an enemy of God.
4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
4:6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
4:7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
4:9 Be miserable and mourn and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
4:11 Do not slander one another, brothers. He who slanders a brother or judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.
4:12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you who judge your neighbor?
4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
4:14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
4:15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
4:16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
4:17 Therefore, to one who knows to do the right thing and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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