Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

Do they not blaspheme the good name of the one you belong to?

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

You ought to say instead, “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.”

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;