Tiago 4


2 you desire, and you have not; you murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; you fight and war, and you have not, because of your not asking;

3 you ask, and you receive not, because evilly you ask, that in your pleasures you may spend it.

4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have you not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

5 Do you think that emptily the Writing says, 'To envy earnestly desires the spirit that did dwell in us,'

6 and greater grace he does give, wherefore he says, 'God against proud ones does set Himself up, and to lowly ones He does give grace?'





11 Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, does speak against law, and does judge law, and if law you do judge, you are not a doer of law but a judge;

12 one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; you -- who are you that do judge the other?

13 Go, now, you who are saying, 'To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'



16 and now you glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
