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1 From whence come wars and fight­ings among you? ­come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your mem­bers? 2 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. 3 Ye ask, and re­ceive not, be­cause ye ask amiss, that ye may con­sume it upon your lusts. 4 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. 5 Do ye think that the scrip­ture saith in vain, The spir­it that dwelleth in us lus­teth to en­vy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Where­fore he saith, God re­sisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the hum­ble. 7 Sub­mit your­selves there­fore to God. Re­sist the dev­il, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sin­ners; and pu­ri­fy your hearts, ye dou­ble mind­ed. 9 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.