From
whence come wars and fightings among you? come
they not hence, even of your lusts that war in
your members?
02 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to
have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye
have not, because ye ask not.
03 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss,
that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
04 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not
that the friendship of the world is enmity with
God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the
world is the enemy of God.
05 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain,
The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
06 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith,
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto
the humble.
07 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the
devil, and he will flee from you.
08 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to
you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify
your hearts, ye double minded.
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09 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your
laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to
heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord,
and he shall lift you up.
11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He
that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth
his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and
judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou
art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and
to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we
will go into such a city, and continue there a
year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the
morrow. For what is your life? It is even a
vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and
then vanisheth away.
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we
shall live, and do this, or that.
16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such
rejoicing is evil.
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and
doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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