3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.
4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, “The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?
6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”
7 So submit 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 make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.