James 4
4:1From where come wars and fights among you? Is it not from here, from your pleasures soldiering in your members?
4:2You desire and do not have; you murder and are jealous, and are not able to succeed; you do combat and wage war; you have not because you do not ask.
4:3You ask, and do not receive, because wickedly you ask, that you should spend for your own pleasures.
4:4Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Who ever therefore should want to be a friend of the world, stands as enemy of God.
4:5Or do you think that uselessly the scripture says, The spirit which dwells in us longs after with envy?
4:6But he gives greater favor. Therefore he says, The lord resists the proud, but to the humble he gives favor.
4:7Be submitted then to God! Oppose the devil, and he will flee from you!
4:8Approach to God, and he will approach unto you! Cleanse your hands, O sinners! and purify your hearts, O double-minded!
4:9Languish and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be converted into mourning, and your joy into sadness!
4:10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you!
4:11Do not speak ill of one another, brethren! The one speaking ill of a brother, and judging his brother, speaks ill of the law, and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of law, but a judge.
4:12There is one lawgiver, the one being able to deliver and to destroy. But you, and who are you who judges the other?
4:13Come now, O ones saying, Today and tomorrow we should go to thus the city, and we should spend there one year, and should trade, and should make gain,
4:14you who do not know the thing of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it shall be a vapor, appearing for a little, and thereupon disappearing.
4:15Instead your saying should be, If the Lord should will, and we should live, then we should do this or that.
4:16But now you boast in your ostentatiousness; all such boasting is wicked.
4:17Knowing then to do good and not doing, it is sin to him.