1 From from what place [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

2 You2f lust, and have not: you2f kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you2f fight and war, yet you2f have not, because you2f ask not.

3 You2f ask, and receive not, because you2f ask amiss, that you2f may consume [it] upon your lusts.

4 You2f adulterers and adulteresses, know you2f 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 you2f think that the scripture says in vain, The Spirit [Ruach] that dwells in us lusts to envy?

6 But he gives more grace. For what reason he says, God-The Father resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God-The Father. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 Draw near to God-The Father, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you2f] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [you2f] 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 - Kurios, and he shall lift you up.

11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of [his] brother, and his brother, speaks evil of the law, and the law: but if youi judge the law, youi are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are youi that judge another?

13 Go to now, you2f 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:

14 Whereas you2f 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.

15 For that you2f [ought] to say, If the Lord - Kurios will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

16 But now you2f rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does [it] not, to him it is sin.