 Things to Avoid 1What is the source of quarrels and conflicts
among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in
your members? 2You lust and do not have; so you commit murder.
You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You
do not have because you do not ask. 3You ask and do not receive,
because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on
your pleasures. 4You adulteresses, do you not know that
friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore
whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an
enemy of God. 5Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no
purpose: "#Or The spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts
with envyHe jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to
dwell in us"? 6But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says,
"God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
7Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from
you. 8Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse
your hands, you sinners;