3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings. ¹  3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth. 3:15 Such ²  wisdom does not come ³  from above but is earthly, natural, ⁴  demonic. 3:16 For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice. 3:17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, ⁵  full of mercy and good fruit, ⁶  impartial, and not hypocritical. ⁷  3:18 And the fruit that consists of righteousness ⁸  is planted ⁹  in peace among ¹⁰  those who make peace.

4:1 Where do the conflicts and where ¹¹  do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, ¹²  from your passions that battle inside you? ¹³  4:2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask; 4:3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

4:4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? ¹⁴  So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.