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4 : 1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passionsareat war within you?
4 : 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet 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 askwrongly, to spend it on your passions.
4 : 4 You adulterous people!Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
4 : 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says,He yearns jealously over the spiritthat he has made to dwell in us?
4 : 6 Buthe gives more grace. Therefore it says,God opposes the proud, butgives grace to the humble.
4 : 7 Submit yourselves 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, andpurify your hearts,you double-minded.
4 : 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
4 : 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
4 : 11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.The one who speaks against a brother orjudges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
4 : 12 There is onlyone lawgiver andjudge, he who is able to save andto destroy. Butwho are you to judge your neighbor?
4 : 13 Come now, you who say,Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit&emdash;
4 : 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? Foryou are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
4 : 15 Instead you ought to say,If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.
4 : 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance.All such boasting is evil.
4 : 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.