4 ¹ What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Do they not spring from the aggressiveness of your bodily desires? 4 ² You want something which you cannot have, and so you are bent on murder; you are envious, and cannot attain your ambition, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not get what you want, because you do not pray for it. 4 ³ Or, if you do, your requests are not granted because you pray from wrong motives, to spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 ⁴ You false, unfaithful creatures! Have you never learned that love of the world is enmity to God? Whoever chooses to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy. 4 ⁵ Or do you suppose that Scripture has no meaning when it says that the spirit which God implanted in man turns towards envious desires? 4 ^{6 [ Pr.3.34. ]} And yet the grace he gives is stronger. Thus Scripture says, 'God opposes the arrogant and gives grace to the humble.' Be submissive then to God. 4 ⁷ Stand up to the devil and he will turn and run. 4 ⁸ Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Sinners, make your hands clean; you who are double-minded, see that your motives are pure. 4 ⁹ Be sorrowful, mourn and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your gaiety into gloom. 4 ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before God and he will lift you high.