004:005 Or do you suppose that it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "The Spirit which He has caused to dwell in our hearts yearns jealously over us"? 004:006 But He gives more abundant grace, as is implied in His saying, "God sets Himself against the haughty, but to the lowly He gives grace." 004:007 Submit therefore to God: resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. 004:008 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God. 004:009 Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame. 004:010 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. 004:011 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it. 004:012 The only real Lawgiver and Judge is He who is able to save or to destroy. Who are you to sit in judgement on your fellow man? 004:013 Come, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there and carry on a successful business," 004:014 when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more. 004:015 Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that." 004:016 But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil. 004:017 If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin. 005:001 Come, you rich men, weep aloud and howl for your sorrows which will soon be upon you. 005:002 Your treasures have rotted, and your piles of clothing are moth-eaten; 005:003 your gold and your silver have become covered with rust, and the rust on them will give evidence against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded up wealth in these last days. 005:004 I tell you that the pay of the labourers who have gathered in your crops--pay which you are keeping back--is calling out against you; and the outcries of those who have been your reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of Heaven. 005:005 Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come. 005:006 You have condemned--you have murdered--the righteous man: he offers no resistance.