2. You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not.
3. You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
4. Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.
5. Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
6. But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
7. Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you.