4Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they -G4159G4171G2532G3163G1722G5213G3756G1782G1537G5216G2237G4754G1722G5216G31962You want something but do not get it, so you commit murder. You covet something but cannot obtain it, so you quarrel and fight. You do not get things because you do not ask for them!G1937G2532G2192G3756G5407G2532G2206G2532G3756G1410G2013G3164G2532G4170G1161G2192G3756G1223G5209G154G33613You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason - for your own pleasure.G154G2532G2983G3756G1360G154G2560G2443G1159G1722G5216G22374You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.G3432G2532G3428G1492G3756G3754G5373G2889G2076G2189G2316G3739G302G3767G1511G1014G5384G2889G2525G2190G23165Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God caused to live in us jealously yearns for us -G2228G1380G3754G1124G3004G2761G4151G3739G2730G1722G2254G1971G4314G53556But he gives all the more grace. And so he says, "God opposes the arrogant but gives grace to the humble."G1161G1325G3187G5485G1352G3004G2316G498G5244G1161G1325G5485G50117Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will run away from you.G5293G3767G2316G436G1228G2532G5343G575G52168Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.G1448G2316G2532G1448G5213G2511G5495G268G2532G48G2588G13749Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.G5003G2532G3996G2532G2799G5216G1071G3344G1519G3997G2532G5479G1519G272610Humble yourselves in the Lord's presence, and he will exalt you.48G5013G1799G2962G2532G5312G5209G5312
Do Not Criticize Each Other
11Do not criticize each other, brothers. Whoever makes it his habit to criticize his brother or to judge his brother is judging the law and condemning the law. But if you condemn the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.G2635G3361G2635G240G80G2635G80G2532G2919G846G80G2635G3551G2532G2919G3551G1161G1487G2919G3551G1488G3756G4163G3551G235G292312There is only one Lawgiver and Judge - the one who can save and destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor -G2076G1520G3550G3588G1410G4982G2532G622G5101G1488G4771G3739G2919G2087
Do Not Boast about Future Plans
13Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money."G33G3568G3004G4594G2532G839G4198G1519G3592G4172G2532G4160G4160G1563G1520G1763G2532G1710G1710G2532G2770G277014You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.G3748G1987G3756G3588G839G1063G4169G5216G2222G2076G1063G822G4314G5316G3641G1161G1899G85315Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live - and do this or that."G473G5209G3004G1437G2962G2309G2532G2198G2198G2532G4160G4160G5124G2228G156516But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.G1161G3568G2744G1722G5216G212G3956G5108G2746G2076G419017Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin.G3767G1492G4160G2570G2532G4160G3361G846G2076G266