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Jakovljeva 4
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
Jakovljeva 4
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
Predajte se Bogu!
4 Odakle sukobi i svađe među vama? Oni dolaze iznutra, iz vaših sebičnih želja koje ratuju u vašim tijelima. 2 Vi želite, ali ne dobivate, pa zato ubijate i zavidite. Ne dobivate ono što želite pa se svađate i ratujete. Ne dobivate jer ne molite. 3 A kad molite, ne dobivate jer molite iz krivih razloga: da to potrošite na svoje užitke.
4 Vi nevjerni ljudi[a]! Znajte da je ljubav prema svijetu isto što i neprijateljstvo prema Bogu. Tko želi biti prijatelj svijetu, postat će neprijatelj Bogu. 5 Zar mislite da Sveto pismo uzalud kaže kako Bog »ljubomorno čezne za duhom što ga je nastanio u nama«[b]? 6 A Bog nam daje i veću milost. Stoga, Sveto pismo kaže: »Bog se protivi oholima, a poniznima iskazuje naklonost.«[c]
7 Podložite se, dakle, Bogu! Suprotstavite se đavlu i on će pobjeći od vas. 8 Približite se Bogu i Bog će se približiti vama. Vi grešnici, očistite svoj život od grijeha[d]! Vi podvojenog uma[e], očistite svoja srca! 9 Tugujte, žalite i plačite! Pretvorite svoj smijeh u plač, a veselje u žalost. 10 Ponizite se pred Gospodinom i on će vas uzvisiti!
Ne sudite!
11 Braćo i sestre, nemojte govoriti jedni protiv drugih! Tko govori protiv svoga brata ili sestre, ili sudi svojemu bratu ili sestri, govori protiv Zakona. A ako osuđuješ Zakon, ne pokoravaš mu se, nego si postao sudac. 12 Samo je Bog zakonodavac i samo je Bog sudac. Samo Bog može spasiti i uništiti. Dakle, što misliš, tko si ti da možeš suditi drugom čovjeku?
Prepusti Bogu svoj život
13 Neki od vas govore: »Danas ili sutra otići ćemo u neki grad. Ondje ćemo biti godinu dana. Poslovat ćemo i dobro zaraditi.« A sad poslušajte i razmislite: 14 ne znate ni što će sutra biti s vašim životom! Vi ste tek sumaglica koja se na tren pojavi i potom nestane. 15 Ovako biste trebali govoriti: »Ako bude Gospodinova volja, živjet ćemo i raditi ovo ili ono.« 16 Ali vi se sada uznosite i hvalite. Svako je takvo hvalisanje zlo. 17 Tko ne čini ono što zna da je dobro, čini grijeh.
Footnotes
- 4,4 nevjerni ljudi Doslovno: »preljubnici«. Nevjera je preljub spram Boga.
- 4,5 Druga mogućnost prijevoda: »Mislite li da Sveto pismo uzalud kaže da duh kojeg je Bog stavio u nas čezne od zavisti?«
- 4,6 Citat iz Izr 3,34.
- 4,8 očistite svoj život od grijeha Doslovno: »operite svoje ruke«.
- 4,8 podvojenog uma Odnosi se na one koji žele istovremeno slijediti Boga i svijet. Vidi 4,4.
James 4
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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:
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.
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.
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