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[1]FROM whence come conflicts and quarrels among you? Is it not from the lusts that war in your members?
[2]You covet, and do not obtain; you kill and envy, but you cannot possess; you strive and fight, yet you have nothing, because you do not ask.
[3]You ask and you do not receive because you do not ask sincerely, you ask that you may satisfy your lusts.
[4]O you adulterers! Do you not know that the love for worldly things is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, esteems worldly things is the enemy of God.
[5]Or do you think that the scripture said in vain, The pride that dwells in us is provoked by jealousy?
[6]But our LORD has given us abundant grace. Therefore he said, God humbles the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
[7]Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist Satan, and he will flee from you.
[8]Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, O you sinners! And purify your hearts, O you of doubtful mind!
[9]Humble yourselves, and mourn; let your laughter be turned to weeping, and your joy to sorrow.
[10]Humble yourselves before the LORD and he shall lift you up.
[11]Do not speak against one another, my brethren, for he who speaks against his brother, and judges his brother, 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.
[12]For there is one lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you to judge your neighbor?
[13]What then shall we say of those who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to a certain city, and will work there a year, and will trade and prosper?
[14]They do not know what will happen tomorrow! For what is our life? It is but a vapour, which appears for a little while, and then vanishes away.
[15]Instead of that they should say, If the LORD will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
[16]But now they are proud in their boasting: all such pride is evil.
[17]Therefore he who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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