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4:1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? 4:2 You lust and do not have; [so] you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain; [so] you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend [it] on your pleasures. 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"? 4:6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore [it] says, "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 4:7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 4:9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy to gloom. 4:10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. 4:11 Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge [of it]. 4:12 There is [only] one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor? 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow, we shall go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." 4:14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are [just] a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. 4:15 Instead, [you ought] to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and also do this or that." 4:16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 4:17 Therefore, to one who knows [the] right thing to do, and does not do it, to him it is sin.