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Iacov 4
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Supuneţi-vă lui Dumnezeu!

4 De unde vin conflictele şi luptele între voi? Nu din acestea[a], din dorinţele voastre care se luptă în mădularele voastre? 2 Voi doriţi, dar nu aveţi; ucideţi şi râvniţi, dar nu puteţi obţine; vă certaţi şi vă luptaţi, dar nu aveţi, pentru că nu cereţi. 3 Sau cereţi, dar nu primiţi, pentru că cereţi ce este rău, ca să risipiţi în plăcerile voastre. 4 Adulteri ce sunteţi! Nu ştiţi că prietenia cu lumea înseamnă duşmănie faţă de Dumnezeu? Aşa că oricine vrea să fie prieten cu lumea se face duşman al lui Dumnezeu. 5 Sau vi se pare că degeaba spune Scriptura: „Dumnezeu tânjeşte cu gelozie după duhul[b] pe care l-a pus să locuiască în noi.“[c]? 6 Însă El dă un har şi mai mare. De aceea Scriptura spune:

„Dumnezeu este împotriva celor mândri,
    dar celor smeriţi El le dă har.“[d]

7 Supuneţi-vă deci lui Dumnezeu! Împotriviţi-vă diavolului[e], şi el va fugi de la voi. 8 Apropiaţi-vă de Dumnezeu, şi El Se va apropia de voi! Curăţiţi-vă mâinile, păcătoşilor! Curăţiţi-vă inimile, oameni cu două feluri de gândire! 9 Întristaţi-vă, tânguiţi-vă şi plângeţi! Râsul vostru să se transforme în jale, iar bucuria în întristare! 10 Smeriţi-vă înaintea Domnului, iar El vă va înălţa!

11 Fraţilor, nu vă vorbiţi de rău unii pe alţii! Cel care-l vorbeşte de rău sau îl judecă pe fratele lui vorbeşte împotriva Legii şi judecă Legea. Însă dacă tu judeci Legea, atunci nu eşti un împlinitor al Legii, ci un judecător. 12 Unul singur este Dătătorul Legii şi Judecătorul, şi anume Cel Care poate să mântuiască şi să distrugă. Dar tu cine eşti să-l judeci pe semenul tău?!

13 Ascultaţi acum voi care spuneţi: „Azi sau mâine ne vom duce într-o anume cetate, vom sta acolo un an, vom face negoţ şi vom câştiga!“ 14 Şi nu ştiţi nici măcar ce va aduce ziua de mâine! Căci ce este viaţa voastră? Sunteţi un abur, care apare pentru puţin timp şi apoi dispare. 15 În schimb, ar trebui să spuneţi: „Dacă Domnul vrea, vom trăi şi vom face cutare sau cutare lucru.“ 16 Pe când acum vă mândriţi cu lăudăroşeniile voastre! Orice astfel de laudă este rea. 17 Aşadar, cine ştie să facă ce este bine, dar nu-l face, este vinovat de păcat.

Footnotes

  1. Iacov 4:1 Lit.: de aici
  2. Iacov 4:5 Sau: Duhul
  3. Iacov 4:5 Sau: Duhul pe care Dumnezeu l-a pus să locuiască în noi tânjeşte cu gelozie; nu există nici un citat ca acesta în Scriptură (fie Iacov se referă la o învăţătură evidentă din Scripturi, care nu se află în această formă exactă într-un verset anume, fie Iacov citează o versiune a VT de care nu mai dispunem)
  4. Iacov 4:6 Vezi Prov. 3:34
  5. Iacov 4:7 Gr.: diabolos, care înseamnă bârfitor, defăimător, calomniator
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Iacob 4
Cornilescu 1924 - Revised 2010, 2014

4 De unde vin luptele şi certurile între voi? Nu vin oare din poftele voastre, care(A) se luptă în mădularele voastre? 2 Voi poftiţi şi nu aveţi; ucideţi, pizmuiţi şi nu izbutiţi să căpătaţi; vă certaţi şi vă luptaţi şi nu aveţi, pentru că nu cereţi. 3 Sau cereţi(B) şi nu căpătaţi, pentru că(C) cereţi rău, cu gând să risipiţi în plăcerile voastre. 4 Suflete preacurvare!(D) Nu ştiţi că prietenia(E) lumii este vrăjmăşie cu Dumnezeu? Aşa că cine(F) vrea să fie prieten cu lumea se face vrăjmaş cu Dumnezeu. 5 Credeţi că degeaba vorbeşte Scriptura? Duhul(G), pe care L-a pus Dumnezeu să locuiască în noi, ne vrea cu gelozie pentru Sine. 6 Dar, în schimb, ne dă un har şi mai mare. De aceea zice Scriptura: „Dumnezeu(H) stă împotriva celor mândri, dar dă har celor smeriţi”. 7 Supuneţi-vă dar lui Dumnezeu. Împotriviţi-vă(I) diavolului, şi el va fugi de la voi. 8 Apropiaţi-vă(J) de Dumnezeu, şi El Se va apropia de voi. Curăţiţi-vă(K) mâinile, păcătoşilor; curăţiţi-vă(L) inima, oameni(M) cu inima împărţită! 9 Simţiţi-vă(N) ticăloşia; tânguiţi-vă şi plângeţi! Râsul vostru să se prefacă în tânguire, şi bucuria voastră, în întristare: 10 Smeriţi-vă(O) înaintea Domnului, şi El vă va înălţa. 11 Nu(P) vă vorbiţi de rău unii pe alţii, fraţilor! Cine vorbeşte de rău pe un frate sau(Q) judecă pe fratele său vorbeşte de rău Legea sau judecă Legea. Şi, dacă judeci Legea, nu eşti împlinitor al Legii, ci judecător. 12 Unul singur este dătătorul şi judecătorul Legii: Acela care(R) are putere să mântuiască şi să piardă. Dar tu(S) cine eşti de judeci pe aproapele tău? 13 Ascultaţi(T), acum, voi care ziceţi: „Astăzi sau mâine ne vom duce în cutare cetate, vom sta acolo un an, vom face negustorie şi vom câştiga!” 14 Şi nu ştiţi ce va aduce ziua de mâine! Căci ce este viaţa voastră? Nu sunteţi decât un abur(U), care se arată puţintel, şi apoi piere. 15 Voi, dimpotrivă, ar trebui să ziceţi: „Dacă va(V) vrea Domnul, vom trăi şi vom face cutare sau cutare lucru”. 16 Pe când acum vă făliţi cu lăudăroşiile voastre! Orice(W) laudă de felul acesta este rea. 17 Deci cine(X) ştie să facă bine şi nu face săvârşeşte un păcat!

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James 4
New English Translation

Passions and Pride

4 Where do the conflicts and where[a] do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this,[b] from your passions that battle inside you?[c] 2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask; 3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God?[d] So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy. 5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,[e] “The spirit that God[f] caused[g] to live within us has an envious yearning”?[h] 6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”[i] 7 So submit to God. But 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, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.[j] 9 Grieve, mourn,[k] and weep. Turn your laughter[l] into mourning and your joy into despair. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters.[m] He who speaks against a fellow believer[n] or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge.[o] 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge—the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?[p]

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town[q] and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.” 14 You[r] do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like?[s] For you are a puff of smoke[t] that appears for a short time and then vanishes. 15 You ought to say instead,[u] “If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that.” 16 But as it is,[v] you boast about your arrogant plans.[w] All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows what is good to do[x] and does not do it is guilty of sin.[y]

Footnotes

  1. James 4:1 tn The word “where” is repeated in Greek for emphasis.
  2. James 4:1 tn Grk “from here.”
  3. James 4:1 tn Grk “in your members [i.e., parts of the body].”
  4. James 4:4 tn Grk “is hostility toward God.”
  5. James 4:5 tn Grk “vainly says.”
  6. James 4:5 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  7. James 4:5 tc The Byzantine text and a few other mss (P 5 33 436 442 1243 1611 1735 1852 2344 2492 M) have the intransitive κατῴκησεν (katōkēsen) here, which turns τὸ πνεῦμα (to pneuma) into the subject of the verb: “The spirit which lives within us.” But the more reliable and older witnesses (P74 א B Ψ 049 1241 1739 al) have the causative verb, κατῴκισεν (katōkisen), which implies a different subject and τὸ πνεῦμα as the object: “The spirit that he causes to live within us.” Both because of the absence of an explicit subject and the relative scarcity of the causative κατοικίζω (katoikizō, “cause to dwell”) compared to the intransitive κατοικέω (katoikeō, “live, dwell”) in biblical Greek (κατοικίζω does not occur in the NT at all, and occurs much less frequently than κατοικέω in the LXX), it is easy to see why scribes would replace κατῴκισεν with κατῴκησεν. Thus, on internal and external grounds, κατῴκισεν is the preferred reading.
  8. James 4:5 tn Interpreters debate the referent of the word “spirit” in this verse: (1) The translation takes “spirit” to be the lustful capacity within people that produces a divided mind (1:8, 14) and inward conflicts regarding God (4:1-4). God has allowed it to be in man since the fall, and he provides his grace (v. 6) and the new birth through the gospel message (1:18-25) to counteract its evil effects. (2) On the other hand the word “spirit” may be taken positively as the Holy Spirit and the sense would be, “God yearns jealously for the Spirit he caused to live within us.” But the word for “envious” or “jealous” is generally negative in biblical usage and the context before and after seems to favor the negative interpretation.sn No OT verse is worded exactly this way. This is either a statement about the general teaching of scripture or a quotation from an ancient translation of the Hebrew text that no longer exists today.
  9. James 4:6 sn A quotation from Prov 3:34.
  10. James 4:8 tn Or “two-minded” (the same description used in 1:8).
  11. James 4:9 tn This term and the following one are preceded by καί (kai) in the Greek text, but contemporary English generally uses connectives only between the last two items in such a series.
  12. James 4:9 tn Grk “let your laughter be turned.”
  13. James 4:11 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.
  14. James 4:11 tn See note on the word “believer” in 1:9.
  15. James 4:11 tn Grk “a judge.”
  16. James 4:12 tn Grk “who judges your neighbor.”
  17. James 4:13 tn Or “city.”
  18. James 4:14 tn Grk “who” (continuing the description of the people of v. 13). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
  19. James 4:14 tn Or “you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.”
  20. James 4:14 tn Or “a vapor.” The Greek word ἀτμίς (atmis) denotes a swirl of smoke arising from a fire (cf. Gen 19:28; Lev 16:13; Joel 2:30 [Acts 2:19]; Ezek 8:11).
  21. James 4:15 tn Grk “instead of your saying.”
  22. James 4:16 tn Grk “but now.”
  23. James 4:16 tn Or “you boast in your arrogance.” The translation in the text is based on two points: (1) The verb καυχάομαι (kauchaomai, “boast”) often uses the preposition ἐν (en) to indicate the focus of the boast (see BDAG 536 s.v. 1). (2) ἀλαζονεία (alazoneia, “arrogance”) here is plural and likely refers to the specific plans mentioned in v. 13.
  24. James 4:17 tn Or “knows how to do what is good.”
  25. James 4:17 tn Grk “to him it is sin.”
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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:

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”[c](K)

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

  1. James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.
  2. 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
  3. James 4:6 Prov. 3:34
  4. 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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James 4
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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.

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