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Is it not from your passions<a id="rfn66004001-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn66004001-2">*</a> that make war within your members?<a id="ren66004001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en66004001-a">a</a> <span id="v66004002" class="ver">2</span>You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because you do not ask. <span id="v66004003" class="ver">3</span>You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. <span id="v66004004" class="ver">4</span>Adulterers!<a id="rfn66004004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn66004004-1">*</a> Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.<a id="ren66004004-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en66004004-b">b</a> <span id="v66004005" class="ver">5</span>Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks without meaning when it says, “The spirit that he has made to dwell in us tends toward jealousy”?<a id="rfn66004005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn66004005-1">*</a> <span id="v66004006" class="ver">6</span>But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says:<a id="ren66004006-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en66004006-c">c</a></p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">“God resists the proud,</p> <p class="sl1l">but gives grace to the humble.”<a id="rfn66004006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn66004006-1">*</a></p> </div> <p class="pcon"><span id="v66004007" class="ver">7</span>So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.<a id="ren66004007-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en66004007-d">d</a> <span id="v66004008" class="ver">8</span>Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you of two minds.<a id="ren66004008-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en66004008-e">e</a> <span id="v66004009" class="ver">9</span>Begin to lament, to mourn, to weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection. <span id="v66004010" class="ver">10</span>Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.<a id="ren66004010-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en66004010-f">f</a></p> <p><span id="v66004011" class="ver">11</span>Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. Whoever speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law.<a id="rfn66004011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn66004011-1">*</a> If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. <span id="v66004012" class="ver">12</span>There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save or to destroy. Who then are you to judge your neighbor?<a id="ren66004012-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en66004012-g">g</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Warning Against Presumption.<a id="rfn66004013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn66004013-1">*</a></span> <span id="v66004013" class="ver">13</span>Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”— <span id="v66004014" class="ver">14</span>you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow.<a id="rfn66004014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn66004014-1">*</a> You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.<a id="ren66004014-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en66004014-h">h</a> <span id="v66004015" class="ver">15</span>Instead you should say, “If the Lord wills it,<a id="rfn66004015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn66004015-1">*</a> we shall live to do this or that.” <span id="v66004016" class="ver">16</span>But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. <span id="v66004017" class="ver">17</span><a id="ren66004017-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en66004017-i">i</a> So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.<a id="rfn66004017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn66004017-1">*</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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