¹ From where are the wars and quarrels among you° coming? Is it not from here, from your° own sensual-delights, the ones warring in your° members?

² You° lust and do not have; you° murder and are jealous and are not able to obtain; you° quarrel and make war; you° do not have, because you° do not ask for yourselves.

³ You° ask and do not receive, because you° ask evilly, in-order-that you° may spend it in your° sensual-delights.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, do you° not know that the friendship of the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever should will to be a friend of the world is designated as an enemy of God.

⁵ Or are you° thinking that the Scripture speaks with emptiness, Does the Spirit who has dwelt in us long to envy?

⁶ But he is giving greater grace. Hence the Scripture says, ‘God resists the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.’ {Prov 3:34}

⁷ Therefore, be° subject to God and stand° against the devil, and he will be fleeing away from you°.

⁸ Draw° near to God and he will be drawing near to you°. Cleanse° your° hands sinners and purify° your° hearts you° indecisive!

⁹ Be° miserable and mourn° and weep°. Let your° laughter be turned to mourning and the joy be turned to gloom.

¹⁰ Humble° yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will be exalting you°.

¹¹ Brethren do° not speak against one another. The one speaking against a brother and the one judging his brother, is speaking against and is judging the law. Now if you are judging the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

¹² There is the one lawgiver, the one able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judges the other?

¹³ Proceed on now, the ones saying, Today and the next-day, we might travel into this city and might spend one year there and should be a merchant and should make$ a gain.

¹⁴ You° do not know the things of the next-day, for$ what is your° life? For$ it will be a vapor, which appears $for a small time but also thereafter disappears.

¹⁵ Instead of the thing you spoke, you° ought to say, If the Lord wills, and we should also live, then we might do$ this or that.

¹⁶ But now you° boast in your° self-importances. All such boasting is evil.

¹⁷ Therefore, you knowing to do$ good and not doing$ it, it is sin to him.