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
James 4
King James Version
4 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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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