4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Dont they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
4:2 You lust, and dont have. You kill, covet, and cant obtain. You fight and make war. You dont have, because you dont ask.
4:3 You ask, and dont receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, dont 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.
4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?
4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
4:7 Be subject therefore 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, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
4:9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
4:11 Dont 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.
4:12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
4:13 Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow lets go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.
4:14 Whereas you dont 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.
4:15 For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.
4:16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
4:17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesnt do it, to him it is sin.