1
Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?
2
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
4
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
5
Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?