4:1 Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, -- from your pleasures, which war in your members?

4:2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

4:3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.

4:4 Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

4:5 Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

4:6 But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.

4:7 Subject 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, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.

4:9 Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.

4:10 Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.

4:11 Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law, thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge.

4:12 One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour?

4:13 Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

4:14 ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

4:15 instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.

4:16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.