2. You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
3. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4. Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5. Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, “The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously”?
6. But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7. Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded!