3. Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because you pray just for selfish reasons.
4. You people aren't faithful to God! Don't you know that if you love the world, you are God's enemies? And if you decide to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.
5. Do you doubt the Scriptures that say, “God truly cares about the Spirit he has put in us”?
6. In fact, God treats us with even greater kindness, just as the Scriptures say,“God opposes everyonewho is proud,but he is kind to everyonewho is humble.”
7. Surrender to God! Resist the devil, and he will run from you.
8. Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you people who can't make up your mind.
9. Be sad and sorry and weep. Stop laughing and start crying. Be gloomy instead of glad.
10. Be humble in the Lord's presence, and he will honour you.
11. My friends, don't say cruel things about others! If you do, or if you condemn others, you are condemning God's Law. And if you condemn the Law, you put yourself above the Law and refuse to obey either it
12. or God who gave it. God is our judge, and he can save or destroy us. What right do you have to condemn anyone?