1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?[ † ]Romans 7:23Galatians 5:171 Peter 2:11 2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.[ † ]Job 27:8-9Psalms 66:18 4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.[ † ]Romans 8:71 John 2:15Galatians 1:4 5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?[ † ]Genesis 6:5 6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.[ † ]Job 22:29Psalms 138:6Proverbs 3:34Matthew 23:121 Peter 5:5 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.[ † ]Ephesians 4:27Ephesians 6:111 Peter 5:8 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.[ † ]2 Chronicles 15:2Zechariah 1:3Malachi 3:7Hebrews 7:19Job 17:9Isaiah 1:161 Timothy 2:8Jeremiah 4:14James 3:171 Peter 1:221 John 3:3 9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.[ † ]Matthew 5:4 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.[ † ]Job 22:29Luke 14:11Luke 18:141 Peter 5:6
11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.[ † ]2 Corinthians 12:20Ephesians 4:31James 5:91 Peter 2:1-3Matthew 7:1-5Romans 14:4 12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?[ † ]Matthew 10:28Romans 14:4
13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.[ † ]Job 7:7Psalms 102:31 Peter 1:24 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.[ † ]Acts 18:211 Corinthians 4:19 16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.[ † ]1 Corinthians 5:6 17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.[ † ]Luke 12:47John 9:412 Peter 2:21