Giacomo 4:1-5
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
Contro le discordie
4 Da che cosa derivano le guerre e le liti che sono in mezzo a voi? Non vengono forse dalle vostre passioni che combattono nelle vostre membra? 2 Bramate e non riuscite a possedere e uccidete; invidiate e non riuscite ad ottenere, combattete e fate guerra! Non avete perché non chiedete; 3 chiedete e non ottenete perché chiedete male, per spendere per i vostri piaceri. 4 Gente infedele! Non sapete che amare il mondo è odiare Dio?
Chi dunque vuole essere amico del mondo si rende nemico di Dio. 5 O forse pensate che la Scrittura dichiari invano: fino alla gelosia ci ama lo Spirito che egli ha fatto abitare in noi?
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James 4:1-5
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?
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James 4:1-5
Good News Translation
Friendship with the World
4 Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you. 2 You want things, but you cannot have them, so you are ready to kill; you strongly desire things, but you cannot get them, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have what you want because you do not ask God for it. 3 And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures. 4 Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy. 5 Don't think that there is no truth in the scripture that says, “The spirit that God placed in us is filled with fierce desires.”[a]
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- James 4:5 The spirit … fierce desires; or God yearns jealously over the spirit that he placed in us.
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