雅各书 4
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
與世俗為友就是與 神為敵
4 你們中間的爭執和打鬥是從哪裡來的呢？不是從你們肢體中好鬥的私慾來的嗎？ 2 你們放縱貪慾，如果得不到，就殺人；你們嫉妒，如果一無所得，就打鬥爭執。你們得不到，因為你們不求； 3 你們求也得不到，因為你們的動機不良，要把所得的耗費在你們的私慾上。 4 淫亂的人哪，你們不知道與世俗為友，就是與 神為敵嗎？所以與世俗為友的，就成了 神的仇敵。 5 聖經說：“ 神愛他那安置在我們裡面的靈，愛到嫉妒的地步”（或譯：“ 神安置在我們裡面的靈，愛到嫉妒的地步”），你們想這話是徒然的嗎？ 6 但 神所賜的恩更大；所以聖經上說：
“ 神抵擋驕傲的人，
賜恩給謙卑的人。”
7 你們應當順服 神，抵擋魔鬼，魔鬼就逃避你們。 8 你們應當親近 神， 神就親近你們。罪人啊，要潔淨你們的手；三心兩意的人哪，要清潔你們的心。 9 你們要愁苦、悲哀、哭泣，把歡笑變為傷痛，把快樂變為憂愁。 10 你們務要在主面前謙卑，他就使你們高升。
不可彼此批評
11 弟兄們，不要互相毀謗；人若毀謗弟兄，或判斷弟兄，就是毀謗律法、判斷律法了。如果你判斷律法，就不是實行律法的人，而是審判官了。 12 立法的，審判的，只有一位，就是那能拯救人，也能毀滅人的 神；你這判斷鄰舍的，你是誰呢？
不可自誇自恃
13 你們說：“今天或明天，我們要到某城去，在那裡住一年，作生意賺錢。” 14 其實明天怎樣，你們並不知道。你們的生命是甚麼呢？你們本來是過眼雲煙，轉瞬之間就消逝了。 15 你們倒不如說：“主若願意，我們就可以活著，作這事或作那事。” 16 但現在你們竟然張狂自誇；這一切自誇，都是邪惡的。 17 人若知道該行善事，卻不去行，這就是他的罪了。
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
Chinese New Version (CNV). Copyright © 1976, 1992, 1999, 2001, 2005 by Worldwide Bible Society.
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