1 - Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
2 - Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 - Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
4 - Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
5 - Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
6 - But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
7 - Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 - Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
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, and he shall exalt you.
11 - Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 - One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?
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