1Our evil lusts and passions tend to breed quarrels among ourselves, and to set us at enmity with God. 7The way to overcome them, and recover God's favour. 11Against slander and censoriousness. 13We must not presume on the future, but commit ourselves to God's providence.
1FROM awhence come wars and 1fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your 2lusts bthat war in your members?
1Or, brawlings.
2Or, pleasures, Lu. 8.14.
a Ga. 5.15,20. Mat. 15.19. Jn. 8.44. 1Ti. 6.4,9,10. ch. 1.14. Je. 17.9. Ro. 8.7. Ge. 6.5. ch. 3.14-18. b Ro. 7.23. Ga. 5.17. 1Pe. 2.11.
2cYe lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye dask not.
c Hab. 2.5. ch. 5.3,4,6. 1Ti. 6.9,10. Ec. 1.8. d ch. 1.5. Phi. 4.6. Is. 43.23.
3eYe ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your 3lusts.
3Or, pleasures, Lu. 8.14.
e Job 27.9. Ps. 18.41. Pr. 1.28. Is. 1.15. Mi. 3.4. Zec. 7.13. Je. 11.14; 14.12. Eze. 8.11. Mat. 20.22. Ps. 66.18. ch. 1.5,6. Ro. 8.26. 1Jn. 3.22; 5.14.
4fYe adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that gthe friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
f Ps. 73.27. Mat. 12.39; 16.4. g Jn. 15.19; 17.14. Ro. 8.7. Ga. 1.10. 1Jn. 2.15,16. Ps. 17.14. Mat. 6.24.
5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, hThe spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth 4to envy?
4Or, enviously?
h Ge. 6.5; 8.21. Nu. 11.29. Pr. 21.10. Ec. 4.4.
6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, iGod resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
i Job 22.29. Pr. 3.34; 29.23. Mat. 23.12. 1Pe. 5.5. Lu. 1.51,52; 14.11; 18.14. Ps. 138.6.
7jSubmit yourselves therefore to God. kResist the devil, and he will flee from you.
j La. 3.27. 2Ch. 30.8. 1Sa. 3.18. 2Sa. 15.26. Job 1.21. k Ep. 4.27; 6.11,12. 1Pe. 5.8,9. Re. 12.11.
8lDraw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. mCleanse your hands, ye sinners; and npurify your hearts, ye double minded.
l Is. 1.18; 55.7. 2Ch. 15.2. Je. 29.12,13. Ho. 6.1,2. Ps. 145.18; 34.15,17; 73.28. Zec. 1.3. Mal. 3.7. m Ps. 26.6. Is. 1.15,16. 1Ti. 2.8. Je. 4.14. Mat. 23.26. ch. 1.8,21. 1Ki. 18.21. 1Jn. 3.3. n 1Pe. 1.22.
9oBe afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
o Ps. 119.136. Mat. 5.4. Je. 13.18. Eze. 6.9; 7.16; 16.63. ch. 5.11.
10pHumble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
p Job 22.29. Lu. 14.11. 1Pe. 5.6. Ps. 10.17,18. Pr. 29.23. Mat. 18.4; 23.12. Lu. 18.14.
11qSpeak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, rspeaketh 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.
q Ep. 4.31. 1Pe. 2.1. Tit. 3.2. Mat. 7.1. Lu. 6.37. Ro. 2.1. 1Co. 4.5. r ch. 2.8.
12sThere is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: twho art thou that judgest another?
s Is. 33.22. Mat. 10.28. t Mat. 7.1,2. Ro. 14.4; 2.1.
13uGo 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:
u Pr. 27.1. Lu. 12.18-20. ch. 5.1.
14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. vFor what is your life? 5It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
5Or, For it is. Job 7.7.
v Job 7.7. Pr. 3.28; 27.1. Is. 40.6. 1Co. 7.31. ch. 1.10. 1Pe. 1.24. 1Jn. 2.17. Job 14.1.
15For that ye ought to say, wIf the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
w Ac. 18.21. Ro. 1.10. 1Co. 4.19; 16.7. Phi. 2.24. He. 6.3.
16xBut now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
x 1Co. 5.2,6. Is. 47.7,8,10. Re. 18.7. Ps. 52.1,7.
17yTherefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
y Lu. 12.47,48. Jn. 9.41; 15.22. Ro. 1.20,21,32; 2.17,18,23.