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Santiago 4
Magandang Balita Biblia
Santiago 4
Magandang Balita Biblia
Kaaway ng Diyos ang Kaibigan ng Sanlibutan
4 Saan nanggagaling ang inyong mga alitan at pag-aaway? Hindi ba't nagmumula iyan sa mga pagnanasang naglalaban-laban sa inyong kalooban? 2 Mayroon kayong ninanasa ngunit hindi ninyo makamtan, kaya't pumapatay kayo, mapasainyo lamang iyon. May mga bagay na gustung-gusto ninyo ngunit hindi ninyo maangkin, kaya kayo'y nagkakagalit at naglalaban-laban. Hindi ninyo nakakamtan ang inyong ninanais dahil hindi kayo humihingi sa Diyos. 3 At humingi man kayo, wala rin kayong natatanggap dahil hindi tama ang inyong layunin. Humihingi kayo upang mapagbigyan ang inyong kalayawan. 4 Mga taksil! Hindi ba ninyo alam na kapag nakipagkaibigan kayo sa sanlibutan ay kinakaaway naman ninyo ang Diyos? Ang sinumang nagnanais na maging kaibigan ng sanlibutan ay nagiging kaaway ng Diyos. 5 Huwag ninyong akalaing walang kabuluhan ang sinasabi sa kasulatan, “Ang espiritung inilagay ng Diyos sa atin ay punô ng matitinding pagnanasa.”[a] 6 Ngunit(A) ang Diyos ay nagbibigay ng higit pang pagpapala. Kaya't sinasabi ng kasulatan, “Ang Diyos ay laban sa mga mapagmataas ngunit pinagpapala niya ang mga mapagpakumbaba.”
7 Kaya nga, pasakop kayo sa Diyos. Labanan ninyo ang diyablo at lalayuan niya kayo. 8 Lumapit kayo sa Diyos at lalapit siya sa inyo. Hugasan ninyo ang inyong mga kamay, kayong mga makasalanan! Linisin ninyo ang inyong puso, kayong pabagu-bago ang isip. 9 Maghinagpis kayo, umiyak at tumangis! Palitan ninyo ng pagluha ang inyong tawanan, at ng kalungkutan ang inyong kagalakan! 10 Magpakumbaba kayo sa harapan ng Panginoon at itataas niya kayo.
Huwag Humatol sa Kapwa
11 Mga kapatid, huwag kayong magsiraan sa isa't isa. Ang naninira o humahatol sa kanyang kapatid ay naninira at humahatol sa Kautusan. At kung hinahatulan mo ang Kautusan, hindi ka na tagasunod ng Kautusan kundi isang hukom nito. 12 Ang Diyos lamang ang nagbigay ng Kautusan at siya rin ang hukom. Tanging siya ang may kapangyarihang magligtas at magparusa. Ngunit ikaw, sino ka upang humatol sa iyong kapwa?
Huwag Magmalaki
13 Makinig(B)(C) kayo sa akin, kayong nagsasabi, “Ngayon o bukas ay pupunta kami sa ganito at ganoong bayan at isang taon kaming mananatili roon, mangangalakal kami at kikita nang malaki.” 14 Ni hindi nga ninyo alam kung ano ang mangyayari sa inyo sa araw ng bukas! Ang buhay ninyo'y parang usok lamang, sandaling lumilitaw at agad nawawala. 15 Sa halip ay sabihin ninyo, “Kung loloobin ng Panginoon, mabubuhay pa kami at gagawin namin ito o iyon.” 16 Ngunit kayo'y nagmamalaki at nagyayabang, at iyan ay masama!
17 Ang nakakaalam ng mabuti na dapat niyang gawin ngunit hindi ito ginagawa ay nagkakasala.
Footnotes
- Santiago 4:5 Ang espiritung...matitinding pagnanasa: o kaya’y Matindi ang pagnanasa ng Diyos sa espiritung inilagay niya sa atin .
James 4
New International Version
James 4
New International Version
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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