You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.

Don't be deluded, my brethren;

Don't delusively content your selves with being of the audience, but put what you hear in practice:

have not you made an arbitrary distinction, don't your judgments flow from a vicious principle?

don't you see his actions and his faith conspir'd, and that his faith had its perfect effect in his conduct?

My brethren, don't affect many of you to be doctors, considering, that those of us who are such, shall be tried with the greater severity.

Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

Don't, my brethren, treat one another with detraction. he that reflects upon his brother, and censures his brother, reflects upon the law, and censures the law: if you censure the law, instead of obeying it, you set up for a judge.

don't repine, my brethren, against one another, for fear you should be condemn'd. behold, the judge is at the gate.

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Don’t they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.