[4:1] What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
[4:2] You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
[4:3] You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
[4:4] You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
[4:5] Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
[4:6] But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
[4:7] Submit 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, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
[4:9] Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
[4:10] Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
[4:11] Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
[4:12] There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?