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What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is the source not your pleasures that wage war in your body's parts?

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

You lust and do not have, so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request on your pleasures.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Or do you think that the Scripture says to no purpose, "He jealously desires the Spirit whom He has made to dwell in us"?

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE."

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Submit therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Come close to God and He will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Be miserable, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. The one who speaks against a brother or sister, or judges his brother or sister, 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 of it.

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, judging your neighbor?

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away.

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, for him it is sin.

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.