1. From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?
2. You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not.
3. You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
4. Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.
5. Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?