James 4

It is as if James can see our day as he warns -

"FROM whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." (New Testament | James 4:1 - 3)

And then James reasons -

"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." (New Testament | James 4:4)

Therefore -

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." (New Testament | James 4:7 - 8)

Double minded in my mind is striving to do what is right while yet desiring to keep on foot in Babylon. In modern day the Lord has commanded -

"Go ye out from among the nations, even from Babylon, from the midst of wickedness, which is spiritual Babylon." (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 133:14)

Even to the extent to not only not commit sin, but to fail to do good for -

"Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." (New Testament | James 4:17)

As we struggle for survival and to do good in this mortal existence, James teaches -

"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord..." (New Testament | James 5:7)

"Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts..." (New Testament | James 5:8)

And in patience -

"Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned..." (New Testament | James 5:9)

I think James provides the greatest counsel as he instructs -

"Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure..." (New Testament | James 5:10 - 11)