4:1  What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

4:2  You lust and do not have; {so} you commit murder. You are envious 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 with wrong motives, so that you may spend {it} on your pleasures.

4:4  You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

4:5  Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us?"

4:6  But He gives a greater grace. Therefore {it} says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE."

4:7  Submit 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 miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.

4:10  Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

4:11  Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who 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 {of it.}

4:12  There is {only} one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?

4:13  Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit."

4:14  Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are {just} a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

4:15  Instead, {you ought} to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that."

4:16  But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

4:17  Therefore, to one who knows {the} right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.