^{2 Ref} ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

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

^{4 Ref} Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

^{5 Ref} Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

^{6 Ref} and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

^{7 Ref} be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;