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James 4
King James Version
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.
Jakobus 4
Schlachter 2000
Jakobus 4
Schlachter 2000
Gegen Begehrlichkeit und Freundschaft mit der Welt
4 Woher kommen die Kämpfe und die Streitigkeiten unter euch? Kommen sie nicht von den Lüsten, die in euren Gliedern streiten?
2 Ihr seid begehrlich und habt es nicht, ihr mordet und neidet und könnt es doch nicht erlangen; ihr streitet und kämpft, doch ihr habt es nicht, weil ihr nicht bittet.
3 Ihr bittet und bekommt es nicht, weil ihr in böser Absicht bittet, um es in euren Lüsten zu vergeuden.
4 Ihr Ehebrecher und Ehebrecherinnen, wisst ihr nicht, dass die Freundschaft mit der Welt[a] Feindschaft gegen Gott ist? Wer also ein Freund der Welt sein will, der macht sich zum Feind Gottes!
5 Oder meint ihr, die Schrift rede umsonst? Ein eifersüchtiges Verlangen hat der Geist, der in uns wohnt;
6 umso reicher aber ist die Gnade, die er gibt. Darum spricht er: »Gott widersteht den Hochmütigen; den Demütigen aber gibt er Gnade«.[b]
Aufruf zu Buße und Demütigung vor Gott
7 So unterwerft euch nun Gott! Widersteht dem Teufel, so flieht er von euch;
8 naht euch zu Gott, so naht er sich zu euch! Reinigt die Hände, ihr Sünder, und heiligt eure Herzen, die ihr geteilten Herzens seid!
9 Fühlt euer Elend, trauert und heult! Euer Lachen verwandle sich in Trauer und eure Freude in Niedergeschlagenheit!
10 Demütigt euch vor dem Herrn, so wird er euch erhöhen.
11 Verleumdet einander nicht, ihr Brüder! Wer seinen Bruder verleumdet und seinen Bruder richtet, der verleumdet das Gesetz und richtet das Gesetz; wenn du aber das Gesetz richtest, so bist du nicht ein Täter, sondern ein Richter des Gesetzes.
12 Einer nur ist der Gesetzgeber, der die Macht hat, zu retten und zu verderben; wer bist du, dass du den anderen richtest?
Warnung vor Selbstsicherheit
13 Wohlan nun, die ihr sagt: Heute oder morgen wollen wir in die und die Stadt reisen und dort ein Jahr zubringen, Handel treiben und Gewinn machen
14 — und doch wisst ihr nicht, was morgen sein wird! Denn was ist euer Leben? Es ist doch nur ein Dunst, der eine kleine Zeit sichtbar ist; danach aber verschwindet er.
15 Stattdessen solltet ihr sagen: Wenn der Herr will und wir leben, wollen wir dies oder das tun.
16 Jetzt aber rühmt ihr euch in eurem Übermut! Jedes derartige Rühmen ist böse.
17 Wer nun Gutes zu tun weiß und es nicht tut, für den ist es Sünde.
James 4
New International Version
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:
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
- James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.
- 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
- James 4:6 Prov. 3:34
- 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.
Schlachter 2000 (SCH2000)
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