you have passionate desires and yet cannot gain your end;
you begin to fight and make war. You have not, because you
do not pray;
004:003 or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly,
your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.
004:004 You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with
the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on
being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
004:005 Or do you suppose that it is to no purpose that the Scripture says,
"The Spirit which He has caused to dwell in our hearts yearns
jealously over us"?
004:006 But He gives more abundant grace, as is implied in His saying,
"God sets Himself against the haughty, but to the lowly
He gives grace."
004:007 Submit therefore to God: resist the Devil, and he will
flee from you.
004:008 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure,
you who are half-hearted towards God.
004:009 Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter
be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame.
004:010 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He
will exalt you.
004:011 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks
evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil
of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law,
you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it.
004:012 The only real Lawgiver and Judge is He who is able to save or
to destroy. Who are you to sit in judgement on your fellow man?
004:013 Come, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go to this