4:1 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?
4:2 You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
4:3 You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4:4 You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
4:5 Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?
4:6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
4:7 Therefore, submit 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, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
4:9 Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
4:11 Don’t criticize one another, brothers and sisters. Anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
4:12 There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
4:14 Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
4:15 Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
4:16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
4:17 So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it.
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