4Verse 1Where do the wars and disputes among you come from? Is it not precisely from your pleasures, the ones at war in your members?Verse 2You crave and do not have; you murder+and covet and are not able to obtain; you fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.Verse 3You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may lavish it on your pleasures.Verse 4Adulterers and+adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? So whoever may want to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.+Verse 5Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain that the Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously?+Verse 6But He gives greater grace; therefore He says:“God resists proud ones,but gives grace to humble ones.”+
Is submitting to God
Verse 7Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil+and he will flee from you.Verse 8Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.+Sinners, cleanse your hands! Double-minded, purify your hearts!+Verse 9Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into dejection.+Verse 10Humble yourself before the Lord and He will exalt you.+
Does not judge the different brother
Verse 11Brothers, do not speak evil of one another. Because the one speaking against a brother and judging his brother speaks against a law and judges a law. So if you judge a law you are not a law-doer but a judge.Verse 12The Lawgiver and Judge+is One, the one who is able to save and to destroy. So who are you (sg) to be judging someone who is different?+
Does not boast about tomorrow
Verse 13Come now, you who say, “Today and tomorrow let us travel to that certain city, spend a year there, do business and make a profit;”Verse 14whereas you do not know anything about the morrow. For what is our life?+It is even a vapor that appears for a little time but then vanishes away.Verse 15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”Verse 16But now you boast in your arrogant pretensions. All such boasting is malignant.+Verse 17Therefore, to the one knowing to do good and not doing it, to him it is sin.+