1.Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you. 2.You want things, but you cannt have them, so you are ready to kill; you strongly desire things, but you cannot get them, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it. 3.And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures. 4.Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? Whoever to be the world's friend make himself God's enemy. 5.Don't think that there is not truth in the scripture that says, "The spirit that God placed in us filled with fierce desires." 6.But the grace that God gives is even stronger. As the scripture says, "God resist the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 7.So then, sumit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he wll run away from you. 8.Come near to God, and he will near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites! 9.Be sorrowful, cry, and weep; change your laughter into crying, your joy into gloom! 10.Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will life you up. 11.Do not criticize one another. my brothers. Whoever criticizes a Christian brother or judges him, criticizes the Law, then you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it. 12.God is the only lawgiver and judge. He alone can save and destroy. Who do you think you are, to judge your fellow- man? 13.Now listen to me, you that say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to a certain city, where we will stay a year and go into business and make a lot of money." 14.You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears. 15.What you shoud say is this: If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that." 16.But now you are prod, and you boast; all such boasting is wrong. 17.So then, the person who does not do the good he knows he should do is guilty of sin.
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