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与世俗为友就是与神为敌

你们中间的争战、斗殴是从哪里来的呢?不是从你们百体中战斗之私欲来的吗? 你们贪恋,还是得不着;你们杀害嫉妒,又斗殴争战,也不能得。你们得不着,是因为你们不求。 你们求也得不着,是因为你们妄求,要浪费在你们的宴乐中。 你们这些淫乱的人[a]哪,岂不知与世俗为友就是与神为敌吗?所以凡想要与世俗为友的,就是与神为敌了。 你们想经上所说是徒然的吗?神所赐住在我们里面的灵,是恋爱至于嫉妒吗? 但他赐更多的恩典,所以经上说:“神阻挡骄傲的人,赐恩给谦卑的人。”

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  1. 雅各书 4:4 “淫乱的人”原文作“淫妇”。

Submit Yourselves to God

What causes fights and quarrels(A) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle(B) within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill.(C) You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive,(D) because you ask with wrong motives,(E) that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

You adulterous(F) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(G) means enmity against God?(H) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(I) Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[b]?(J) But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”[c](K)

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.
  2. James 4:5 Or that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely; or that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously
  3. James 4:6 Prov. 3:34