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?
13. Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: