4. You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
6. But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7. Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9. Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.