3 You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
4 You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: "The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?"
6 But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: "God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble."
7 Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!
9 Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow.