^{1 Ref} What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

^{2 Ref} You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.

^{3 Ref} You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

^{4 Ref} O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

^{5 Ref} Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

^{6 Ref} But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.

^{7 Ref} For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

^{8 Ref} Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

^{9 Ref} Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

^{10 Ref} Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

^{11 Ref} Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

^{12 Ref} There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge?

^{13 Ref} How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

^{14 Ref} When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

^{15 Ref} But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

^{16 Ref} But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

^{17 Ref} The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

^{1 Ref} Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

^{2 Ref} You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

^{3 Ref} You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

^{4 Ref} You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

^{5 Ref} Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?

^{6 Ref} But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

^{7 Ref} Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

^{8 Ref} Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

^{9 Ref} Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

^{10 Ref} Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

^{11 Ref} Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

^{12 Ref} Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

^{13 Ref} Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

^{14 Ref} Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

^{15 Ref} For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

^{16 Ref} But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

^{17 Ref} To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

^{1 Ref} Whence `come' wars and whence `come' fightings among you? `come they' not hence, `even' of your pleasures that war in your members?

^{2 Ref} Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

^{3 Ref} Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend `it' in your pleasures.

^{4 Ref} Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

^{5 Ref} Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

^{6 Ref} But he giveth more grace. Wherefore `the scripture' saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

^{7 Ref} Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

^{8 Ref} Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

^{9 Ref} Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

^{10 Ref} Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

^{11 Ref} Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

^{12 Ref} One `only' is the lawgiver and judge, `even' he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

^{13 Ref} Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

^{14 Ref} whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

^{15 Ref} For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.

^{16 Ref} But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

^{17 Ref} To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.