4 What is the source of fighting and conflict among you? Is it not your passions at war within you?  2 You desire, but do not have. You murder and envy but cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.  3 When you do ask you do not receive because you ask wrongly, to use it on your passions.  4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility towards God? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.  5 Do you think that for no reason the Scripture says: “God jealously desires the spirit that He has put in us”?  6 But He gives more grace. As it says, “God is against the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 7 So submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil[1453] and he will flee from you.  8 Draw close to God, and He will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you of two minds.  9 Be sorrowful and grieve and weep. Let your laughing be turned into crying and your joy into dismay.  10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and He will exalt you.
    11 Do not speak evil against each other, brothers and sisters. The one who speaks against or judges a brother or sister speaks evil against and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.  12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor?
    13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and stay there for a year, doing business and making a profit.”  14 But you do not even know about tomorrow, much less the rest of your life. You are like a puff of steam that appears for a little while and then vanishes.  15 You should say instead, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”  16 But as it is you are boasting in your arrogance, and all such boasting is evil.  17 So anyone who knows the right thing to do and does not do it is guilty of sin.