8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Grieve and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to dejection.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
11 Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. He who speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 There is one Lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit,”
14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.