1Where do wars and where do fightings among you come from? do they not come from here, even from your pleasures that war in your members? 2You lust, and do not have: you kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: you fight and war; you do not have, because you do not ask. 3You ask, and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it in your pleasures. 4You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5Or do you think that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the spirit which he made to dwell in us long to envying? 6But he gives more grace. Therefore the scripture says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. 7Be subject therefore to God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you doubleminded. 9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you. 11Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the Torah, and judges the Torah: but if you judge the Torah, you are not a doer of the Torah, but a judge. 12One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you who judge your neighbor? 13Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: 14whereas you do not know what shall be tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. 15Instead you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. 16But now you glory in your boastings: all such glorying is evil. 17To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.