1From from what place [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members? 2You^2f lust, and have not: you^2f kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you^2f fight and war, yet you^2f have not, because you^2f ask not. 3You^2f ask, and receive not, because you^2f ask amiss, that you^2f may consume [it] upon your lusts. 4You^2f adulterers and adulteresses, know you^2f not that the friendship of the world is hatred (being an enemy) with God-The Father? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God-The Father. 5 Do you^2f think that the scripture says in vain, The Spirit [Ruach] that dwells in us lusts to envy? 6But he gives more grace. For what reason he says, God-The Father resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble. 7Submit yourselves therefore to God-The Father. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God-The Father, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you^2f] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [you^2f] double minded. 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 - Kurios, and he shall lift you up.

11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of [his] brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if youⁱ judge the law, youⁱ are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are youⁱ that judge another?

13Go to now, you^2f that say, To day or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14Whereas you^2f know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appears for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15For that you^2f [ought] to say, If the Lord - Kurios will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16But now you^2f rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does [it] not, to him it is sin.