James 3:13–4:6

¹³Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom, ¹⁴and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; ¹⁵this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, ¹⁶for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter; ¹⁷and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical:— ¹⁸and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

Chapter 4

¹Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence—out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? ²ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; ³ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it. ⁴Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set. ⁵Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, ‘To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,’ ⁶and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, ‘God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?’