3You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
4O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
5Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?
6But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.
7For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.
8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
9Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
