003:013 Which of you is a wise and well-instructed man? Let him prove it by a right life with conduct guided by a wisely teachable spirit.
003:014 But if in your hearts you have bitter feelings of envy and rivalry,
do not speak boastfully and falsely, in defiance of the truth.
003:015 That is not the wisdom which comes down from above: it belongs
to earth, to the unspiritual nature, and to evil spirits.
003:016 For where envy and rivalry are, there also are unrest and
every vile deed.
003:017 The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceful, courteous, not self-willed, full of compassion and kind actions, free from favouritism and from all insincerity.
003:018 And peace, for those who strive for peace, is the seed
of which the harvest is righteousness.
004:001 What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings
which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?
004:002 You covet things and yet cannot get them; you commit murder; you have passionate desires and yet cannot gain your end; you begin to fight and make war. You have not, because you do not pray;
004:003 or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.
004:004 You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with
the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on
being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.