3You ask, and don`t receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4You adulterers and adulteresses, don`t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
7Be subject therefore to God. But 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; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.