James 4
World English Bible
4 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. 3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”(A) 7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” 14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.” 16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. 17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
James 4
English Standard Version
Warning Against Worldliness
4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[a] are (A)at war within you?[b] 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask (B)wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 (C)You adulterous people![c] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? (D)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit (E)that he has made to dwell in us”? 6 But (F)he gives more grace. Therefore it says, (G)“God opposes the proud but (H)gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. (I)Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 (J)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. (K)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and (L)purify your hearts, (M)you double-minded. 9 (N)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 (O)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 (P)Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.[d] The one who speaks against a brother or (Q)judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is only (R)one lawgiver and (S)judge, he who is able to save and (T)to destroy. But (U)who are you to judge your neighbor?
Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Come now, you who say, (V)“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (W)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, (X)“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. (Y)All such boasting is evil. 17 (Z)So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Footnotes
- James 4:1 Greek pleasures; also verse 3
- James 4:1 Greek in your members
- James 4:4 Or You adulteresses!
- James 4:11 Or brothers and sisters
Santiago 4
Ang Bagong Tipan: Filipino Standard Version
Pakikipagkaibigan sa Sanlibutan
4 Ano ba ang sanhi ng inyong mga alitan at pag-aaway? Hindi ba't ang mga ito'y dahil sa inyong mga layaw na naglalaban-laban sa loob ng inyong pagkatao? 2 Naghahangad kayo ngunit hindi mapasainyo. Kaya't pumapatay kayo. Hindi ninyo makuha ang mga bagay na hinahangad ninyo kaya kayo'y nagkakagalit at naglalaban-laban. Hindi ninyo makuha ang inyong hinahangad dahil hindi kayo humihingi sa Diyos. 3 Kung humingi man kayo, hindi rin ninyo matatanggap sapagkat hindi tama ang inyong layunin. Humihingi kayo upang gamitin sa inyong kalayawan. 4 Mga taksil! Hindi ba ninyo alam na ang pakikipagkaibigan sa sanlibutan ay pakikipag-away sa Diyos? Kaya't sinumang nagnanais maging kaibigan ng sanlibutan ay nagiging kaaway ng Diyos. 5 Huwag ninyong ipagwalang-bahala ang sinasabi ng Kasulatan, “Ayaw ng Diyos na may kaagaw siya sa espiritu na ibinigay niya upang manirahan sa atin.” 6 Ngunit (A) ang Diyos ay nagkakaloob ng higit pang biyaya. Kaya naman sinasabi, “Sinasalungat ng Diyos ang mga mapagmataas ngunit pinagpapala niya ang mga mapagpakumbaba.” 7 Kaya't pasakop kayo sa Diyos. Labanan ninyo ang diyablo, at siya ay tatakbo palayo sa inyo. 8 Lumapit kayo sa Diyos, at lalapit siya sa inyo. Hugasan ninyo ang inyong mga kamay, kayong mga makasalanan! Gawin ninyong dalisay ang inyong puso, kayong mga nagdadalawang-isip. 9 Managhoy, magluksa at tumangis. Palitan ninyo ang inyong pagtawa ng pagluluksa, at ang inyong kagalakan ng kalungkutan. 10 Magpakumbaba kayo sa harap ng Panginoon, at itataas niya kayo.
Babala Laban sa Paghatol
11 Mga kapatid, huwag kayong magsalita ng masama laban sa isa't isa. Sinumang magsalita laban sa kanyang kapatid, o humahatol dito ay nagsasalita ng masama laban sa Kautusan at humahatol sa Kautusan. Ngunit kung ikaw ay humahatol sa Kautusan, hindi ka na tagatupad ng Kautusan, kundi isang hukom. 12 Iisa lamang ang nagbigay ng Kautusan at siya rin ang hukom na may kapangyarihang magligtas at pumuksa. Kaya sino ka para humatol sa iyong kapwa?
Babala Laban sa Kapalaluan
13 Makinig (B) kayo, kayong nagsasabi, “Ngayon o bukas ay pupunta kami sa ganito o ganoong bayan, at isang taon kaming titigil doon, mangangalakal at kikita nang malaki.” 14 Bakit, alam ba ninyo ang mangyayari bukas? Ano ba ang inyong buhay? Ang buhay ninyo'y usok lamang na sandaling lumilitaw at agad naglalaho. 15 Sa halip, ang dapat ninyong sabihin ay, “Kung loloobin ng Panginoon, mabubuhay pa kami at gagawin namin ito o iyon.” 16 Ngunit kayo ngayon ay nagmamalaki sa inyong kayabangan! Masama ang lahat ng ganyang kayabangan! 17 Kaya sinumang nakaaalam ng mabuti na dapat niyang gawin ngunit hindi ito ginagawa, ibibilang itong kasalanan niya.
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