4:1 Where do quarrels and conflicts among you come from? Don’t they come from this, namely your passions that battle within your body parts?
4:2 You crave and have not. You murder and you envy, yet you cannot get it. You fight and you wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives so you may spend it on your passions.
4:4 You adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
4:5 Or do you think that in vain the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit which He made to dwell in us”?
4:6 But He gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
4:7 Therefore submit to God. But 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 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of Adonai, and He shall lift you up.
4:11 Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the Torah and judges the Torah. But if you judge the Torah, you are not a doer of the Torah, but a judge.
4:12 There is only one lawgiver and judge—the One who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you who judges your neighbor?
4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town 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. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
4:15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
4:16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
4:17 Therefore whoever knows the right thing to do and does not do it—for him it is sin.
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