4: 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill and 45covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
45Gk. are jealous,
4: 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask 46amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
46Gk. ill, (κακως, kakōs, as in cognate: caco·phony, bad sound, dissonance)
4: 4 Ye 47adulteresses, 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.
47That is, who break your marriage vow to Christ, So p100 BAℵ 1739 1852 1241 33 cop vg. ψ 1243 2344 323 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., read adulterers and adulteresses,
4: 5 Or think ye that the scripture 48speaketh in vain? 49Doth the spirit which 50he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
48Or, saith in vain:
49Or, The Spirit which he made to dwell in us, it yearneth for even unto jealous envy. Cf. Jer 3:14; Hos 2:19f. Or, That Spirit which he made to dwell in us yearneth for us even unto jealous envy.
50So p74Bℵψ 1739 1241 (A 81). 1852 1243 2344 33 322 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., vg arm read dwelt in us
4: 6 But he giveth 51more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, 52God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
51Gk. a greater grace.
52Pr 3:34.
4: 7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
4: 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye 53doubleminded.
53Gk. two-souled men.
4: 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
4: 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
4: 11 Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
4: 12 One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?
4: 13 Come now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:
4: 14 whereas 54ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What indeed is your life? 55For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and afterwards disappeareth.
54B almost alone reads ye know not what your life shall be on the morrow.
55So 1852 1243 81. B 1739 322 read For ye are a vapor that appeareth (A omits For) ψ and many lesser Gk. mss. read For ye shall be a vapor that appeareth (33 2344 copsa,bo vg) and many lesser Gk. mss. read For it is a vapor that appeareth ℵ alone reads which appeareth
4: 15 56For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
56Gk. Instead of your saying,
4: 16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
4: 17 To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
