Count it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials,

Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.