1. Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
2. ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;
3. ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].
4. Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye 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 ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
6. and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
7. be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;