1Whence come wars and whence come quarrels among you? Do they not come from here, out from your pleasures that wage war in your members.2You desire and do not have; you commit murder and you are envious and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight; you do not have because you do not ask.3You ask and you do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.4Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever resolves to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.5Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks in vain when it says, 'The spirit which he caused to dwell in us longs for envy'?6Yet he gives greater grace; therefore it says, 'God opposes the arrogant but gives grace to the humble.'7Submit yourselves therefore to God, but resist the devil and he will flee from you.8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you; cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.9Lament and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.10Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.11Do not speak against one another, brothers; whoever speaks against a brother or 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.12There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you to judge your neighbor?