Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded.

You want something but do not get it, so you commit murder. You covet something but cannot obtain it, so you quarrel and fight. You do not get things because you do not ask for them!

if any of you says to them, "Depart in peace! Get warm, get food," without supplying their bodily needs, what use is that?

Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

(1:7) unreliable in every step he takes, must not expect to get anything from the Lord.

You must understand this, my dearly loved brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to get angry;

You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.

So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer keeps on waiting and waiting for the precious crop from his land; how he keeps up his patience over it until he gets the early and late rains,

Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

So get rid of all uncleanness and all that remains of wickedness, and with a humble spirit receive the word [of God] which is implanted [actually rooted in your heart], which is able to save your souls.