1 From where [are] battles and from where [are] fights among you⁺? [Is it] not from there, out of your⁺ pleasures warring in your⁺ members? VP
2 You⁺ desire, and you⁺ do not have. You⁺ murder and are jealous, and you⁺ are not able to obtain. You⁺ fight and battle. You⁺ do not have, because you⁺ do not ask. VP
3 You⁺ ask and do not receive, because you⁺ ask wrongly, that you⁺ may spend [it] in your⁺ pleasures. VP
4 Adulteresses! Do you⁺ not know that friendship of the world is enmity [with] God? Therefore whoever should wish to be a friend of the world is appointed an enemy of God. VP
5 Or do you⁺ think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit that He made to dwell in us yearns with envy”? VP
6 But He gives greater grace. Therefore it says: “God opposes [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] humble.” VP
7 Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you⁺. VP
8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you⁺. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners, and purify hearts, [you] double-souled. VP
9 Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your⁺ laughter be turned to mourning and the joy to gloom. VP
10 Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and He will exalt you⁺. VP
11 Do not speak against one another, brothers. The [one] speaking against a brother or judging 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. VP
12 One is the Lawgiver and Judge, the [One] being able to save and to destroy. But who are you, the [one] judging the neighbor? VP
13 Come now, those saying, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and will spend a year there and will trade and make gain,” VP
14 who do not know what [is] of tomorrow. What [is] your⁺ life? For it is a vapor appearing for a little [while] and then vanishing. VP
15 Instead, you⁺ [ought] to say, “If the Lord is willing, both we will live and we will do this or that.” VP
16 But now you⁺ boast in your⁺ arrogance. All such boasting is evil. VP
17 Therefore to the [one] knowing to do good, and not doing [it], to him it is sin. VP