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Giacomo 4
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
Giacomo 4
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
Contro le discordie
4 Da che cosa derivano le guerre e le liti che sono in mezzo a voi? Non vengono forse dalle vostre passioni che combattono nelle vostre membra? 2 Bramate e non riuscite a possedere e uccidete; invidiate e non riuscite ad ottenere, combattete e fate guerra! Non avete perché non chiedete; 3 chiedete e non ottenete perché chiedete male, per spendere per i vostri piaceri. 4 Gente infedele! Non sapete che amare il mondo è odiare Dio?
Chi dunque vuole essere amico del mondo si rende nemico di Dio. 5 O forse pensate che la Scrittura dichiari invano: fino alla gelosia ci ama lo Spirito che egli ha fatto abitare in noi? 6 Ci dà anzi una grazia più grande; per questo dice:
Dio resiste ai superbi;
agli umili invece dà la sua grazia.
7 Sottomettetevi dunque a Dio; resistete al diavolo, ed egli fuggirà da voi. 8 Avvicinatevi a Dio ed egli si avvicinerà a voi. Purificate le vostre mani, o peccatori, e santificate i vostri cuori, o irresoluti. 9 Gemete sulla vostra miseria, fate lutto e piangete; il vostro riso si muti in lutto e la vostra allegria in tristezza. 10 Umiliatevi davanti al Signore ed egli vi esalterà.
11 Non sparlate gli uni degli altri, fratelli. Chi sparla del fratello o giudica il fratello, parla contro la legge e giudica la legge. E se tu giudichi la legge non sei più uno che osserva la legge, ma uno che la giudica. 12 Ora, uno solo è legislatore e giudice, Colui che può salvare e rovinare; ma chi sei tu che ti fai giudice del tuo prossimo?
Avvertimento ai ricchi
13 E ora a voi, che dite: «Oggi o domani andremo nella tal città e vi passeremo un anno e faremo affari e guadagni», 14 mentre non sapete cosa sarà domani!
Ma che è mai la vostra vita? Siete come vapore che appare per un istante e poi scompare. 15 Dovreste dire invece: Se il Signore vorrà, vivremo e faremo questo o quello. 16 Ora invece vi vantate nella vostra arroganza; ogni vanto di questo genere è iniquo. 17 Chi dunque sa fare il bene e non lo compie, commette peccato.
ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4
1881 Westcott-Hort New Testament
ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4
1881 Westcott-Hort New Testament
4 ποθεν πολεμοι και ποθεν μαχαι εν υμιν ουκ εντευθεν εκ των ηδονων υμων των στρατευομενων εν τοις μελεσιν υμων
2 επιθυμειτε και ουκ εχετε φονευετε και ζηλουτε και ου δυνασθε επιτυχειν μαχεσθε και πολεμειτε ουκ εχετε δια το μη αιτεισθαι υμας
3 αιτειτε και ου λαμβανετε διοτι κακως αιτεισθε ινα εν ταις ηδοναις υμων δαπανησητε
4 μοιχαλιδες ουκ οιδατε οτι η φιλια του κοσμου εχθρα του θεου εστιν ος εαν ουν βουληθη φιλος ειναι του κοσμου εχθρος του θεου καθισταται
5 η δοκειτε οτι κενως η γραφη λεγει προς φθονον επιποθει το πνευμα ο κατωκισεν εν ημιν
6 μειζονα δε διδωσιν χαριν διο λεγει ο θεος υπερηφανοις αντιτασσεται ταπεινοις δε διδωσιν χαριν
7 υποταγητε ουν τω θεω αντιστητε δε τω διαβολω και φευξεται αφ υμων
8 εγγισατε τω θεω και εγγισει υμιν καθαρισατε χειρας αμαρτωλοι και αγνισατε καρδιας διψυχοι
9 ταλαιπωρησατε και πενθησατε και κλαυσατε ο γελως υμων εις πενθος μετατραπητω και η χαρα εις κατηφειαν
10 ταπεινωθητε ενωπιον κυριου και υψωσει υμας
11 μη καταλαλειτε αλληλων αδελφοι ο καταλαλων αδελφου η κρινων τον αδελφον αυτου καταλαλει νομου και κρινει νομον ει δε νομον κρινεις ουκ ει ποιητης νομου αλλα κριτης
12 εις εστιν νομοθετης και κριτης ο δυναμενος σωσαι και απολεσαι συ δε τις ει ο κρινων τον πλησιον
13 αγε νυν οι λεγοντες σημερον η αυριον πορευσομεθα εις τηνδε την πολιν και ποιησομεν εκει ενιαυτον και εμπορευσομεθα και κερδησομεν
14 οιτινες ουκ επιστασθε της αυριον ποια η ζωη υμων ατμις γαρ εστε προς ολιγον φαινομενη επειτα και αφανιζομενη
15 αντι του λεγειν υμας εαν ο κυριος θελη και ζησομεν και ποιησομεν τουτο η εκεινο
16 νυν δε καυχασθε εν ταις αλαζονειαις υμων πασα καυχησις τοιαυτη πονηρα εστιν
17 ειδοτι ουν καλον ποιειν και μη ποιουντι αμαρτια αυτω εστιν
James 4
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James 4
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Submit Yourselves to God
4 What causes fights and quarrels(A) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle(B) within you? 2 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. 3 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.
4 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) 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[b]?(J) 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil,(L) and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you.(M) Wash your hands,(N) you sinners, and purify your hearts,(O) you double-minded.(P) 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.(Q) 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.(R)
11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another.(S) Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister[d] or judges them(T) speaks against the law(U) and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it,(V) but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge,(W) the one who is able to save and destroy.(X) But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?(Y)
Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Now listen,(Z) you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”(AA) 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(AB) 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will,(AC) we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.(AD) 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.(AE)
Footnotes
- James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.
- 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
- James 4:6 Prov. 3:34
- James 4:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family.
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