¹ Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Do not they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

² You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.

³ You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

⁴ You adulteresses¹, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1. NU Vg. M TR add "and adulterers"

⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit which He made to dwell¹ in us yearns jealously"?

1. M TR reads "who dwells" instead of "which He made to dwell"

⁶ But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."¹

1. Proverbs 3:34

⁷ Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

⁹ Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

¹¹ Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or¹ 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.

1. M TR reads "and" instead of "or"

¹² Only one is the lawgiver and judge,¹ who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor²?

1. NU P Vg. M TR omits "and judge"
2. M TR reads "another" instead of "your neighbor"

¹³ Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let us go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

¹⁴ Whereas you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are¹ a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away .

1. M reads "it will be" instead of "you are"

¹⁵ For you ought to say, "If Jehovah wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

¹⁶ But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

¹⁷ To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.