and lie
against the truth. (15)This wisdom is not one that comes down from
above, but earthly, sensual[3:16], devilish. (16)For where there is
emulation and strife, there is confusion and every evil work. (17)But
the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, forbearing,
easily persuaded, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,
and without hypocrisy. (18)And the fruit of righteousness is sown in
peace, by those who work peace.

IV.

FROM whence are wars, and from whence are fightings among you? Are
they not from hence, from your lusts that war in your members? (2)Ye
desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and can not obtain; ye fight
and war. Ye have not, because ye ask not; (3)ye ask, and receive not,
because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

(4)Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is
enmity with God? Whoever therefore desires to be a friend of the world
makes himself an enemy of God. (5)Do ye think that the Scripture says
in vain, the spirit he made to dwell in us has jealous longings?
(6)But he gives the more grace. Wherefore he says:

God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.

(7)Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the Devil, and he will
flee from you. (8)Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye
double-minded. (9)Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter
be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness. (10)Humble
yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

(11)Do not speak against one another, brethren. He that speaks against
his brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges
the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law,
but a judge. (12)One is the lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save
and to destroy. Who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

(13)Come now, ye that say: To-day and to-morrow we will go into this
city, and spend one year there, and buy and sell, and get gain;
(14)(whereas ye know not what belongs to the morrow; for what is your
life? for ye are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then
vanishes away;) (15)instead of saying: If the Lord will, we shall both
live, and do this or that. (16)But now ye glory in your boastings. All
such glorying is evil. (17)Therefore to him that knows to do good, and
does it not, to him it is sin.

V.

COME now, ye