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4:1  Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members?
4:2  You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because you do not ask.
4:3  You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
4:4  Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
4:5  Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks without meaning when it says, “The spirit that he has made to dwell in us tends toward jealousy”?
4:6  But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
4:7  So submit yourselves 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 of two minds.
4:9  Begin to lament, to mourn, to weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.
4:10  Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
4:11  Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. Whoever speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law 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 or to destroy. Who then are you to judge your neighbor?
4:13  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”—
4:14  you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.
4:15  Instead you should say, “If the Lord wills it, we shall live to do this or that.”
4:16  But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
4:17  So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.