1 From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?
2 Ye desire and do not have, so ye murder. And ye envy and cannot obtain, so ye fight and make war. Ye do not have, because ye do not ask.
3 Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5 Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?
6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.
7 Be subordinate therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Approach God and he will approach you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinners, and purify the hearts, ye double-minded.
9 Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.
10 Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Speak not against each other, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law. But if thou judge law, thou are not a doer of law, but a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, but thou, who are thou who judge the other man?
13 Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain--
14 men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
15 in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.
16 But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
17 He therefore who knows to do good, and is not doing it, to him it is sin.
1 From whence commeth warre and fighttynge amonge you: come they not here hence? even of youre volupteousnes that rayne in youre members.
2 Ye lust and have not. Ye envie and have indignacion and cannot obtayne. Ye fight and warre and have not because ye axe not.
3 Ye axe and receave not because ye axe a mysse: even to consume it apon youre volupteousnes.
4 Ye advouterars and wemen that breke matrimonie: knowe ye not how yt the freshippe of ye worlde is ennimite to god warde? Whosoever wilbe a frende of the worlde is made the enemie of god.
5 Ether do ye thinke that the scripture sayth in vayne The sprite that dwelleth in you lusteth eve contrary to envie:
6 but geveth more grace.
7 Submit youre selves to god and resist the devyll and he will flye from you.
8 Drawe nye to god and he will drawe nye to you. Clense youre hondes ye synners and pourdge youre hertes ye waverynge mynded.
9 Suffre affliccios: sorowe ye and wepe. Let youre laughter be turned to mornynge and youre ioye to hevynes.
10 Cast doune youre selves before the lorde and he shall lift you vp.
11 Backbyte not one another brethren. He that backbyteh hys brother and he that iudgeth his brother backbyteth the lawe and iudgeth the lawe. But and yf thou iudge the lawe thou art not an observer of ye lawe: but a iudge.
12 Ther is one lawe gever which is able to save and to distroye. What art thou that iudgest another man?
13 Go to now ye that saye: to daye and to morow let vs go into soche a citie and continue there a yeare and bye and sell and wynne:
14 and yet can not tell what shall happen to morowe. For what thynge is youre lyfe? It is even a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme and the vanyssheth awaye:
15 For that ye ought to saye: yf the lorde will and yf we live let vs do this or that.
16 But nowe ye reioyce in youre bostinges. All soche reioysynge is evyll.
17 Therfore to him that knoweth how to do good and doth it not to him it is synne.