4:1 From-what-source are fights and from-what-source are battles among you? Are they not from-here— from your pleasures waging-war in your body-parts?
4:2 You desire and do not have; you murder. And you are jealous and are not able to obtain; you battle and fight. You do not have because of your not asking!
4:3 You ask and do not receive because you ask badly, in order that you may spend it in connection with your pleasures.
4:4 Adulterous ones, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes-himself an enemy of God.
4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks vainly? He yearns jealously for the spirit which He made-to-dwell in us!
4:6 But He gives greater grace. Therefore it says [in Prov 3:34], “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, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded ones.
4:9 Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.
4:10 Humble-yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
4:11 Do not be speaking-against one another, brothers. The one speaking-against a brother or judging his brother is speaking-against the Law and judging the Law. But if you are judging the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.
4:12 There is one Lawgiver and Judge— the One being able to save and to destroy. But who are you, the one judging your neighbor?
4:13 Come now, the ones saying “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such-and-such city and do a year there, and we will do-business and make-a-gain”—
4:14 who do not know the thing of tomorrow! What is your life? For you are a vapor appearing for a little while, then indeed disappearing!—
4:15 instead of you saying, “If the Lord wills, we indeed will live and do this or that”.
4:16 But as-it-is, you are boasting in your pretensions. All such boasting is evil.
4:17 Therefore, to one knowing to be doing good and not doing it, to him it is a sin.
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