雅各书 4

圣经当代译本修订版

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1 你们彼此冲突、互相斗殴的起因是什么呢?不就是你们身体中不断交战的欲望吗?2 你们贪心,得不到就去杀人。你们嫉妒,得不到就争吵、打斗。你们得不到是因为你们不向上帝祈求。3 你们求也得不到是因为你们动机不纯,只求享乐和满足自己的欲望。4 你们这些对主不忠的人啊,难道还不明白与世俗为友就是与上帝为敌吗?所以,凡是与世俗为友的,都是上帝的敌人。5 圣经上说:“上帝所赐、住在我们心里的圣灵深愿我们完全属于祂。”你们以为这是空谈吗?6 但上帝赐给我们更大的恩典,所以圣经上说:“上帝阻挡骄傲的人,恩待谦卑的人。”7 因此,你们要服从上帝,抵挡魔鬼,魔鬼必逃离你们。8 你们亲近上帝,上帝就必亲近你们。有罪的人啊,洗净你们的手吧!三心二意的人啊,洁净你们的心吧!9 你们要悲伤、忧愁、痛哭,转欢笑为悲哀,变欢乐为愁苦。10 你们要在主面前谦卑,祂必擢升你们。11 弟兄姊妹,不要彼此批评。批评、论断弟兄姊妹就等于是批评、论断律法。如果你论断律法,你就不是遵行律法的人,而是以审判者自居。12 设立律法和审判人的只有一位,就是能拯救人也能毁灭人的上帝。你是谁,竟然论断别人呢?13 你们有些人说:“今天或是明天,我们要往某某城去,在那里逗留一年半载,做生意赚钱。”14 其实你们根本不知道明天会发生什么事。你们的生命是什么呢?你们只不过像一阵雾气,出现片刻,就无影无踪了。15 你们只当说:“如果主许可,我们就可以活着,可以做这事或做那事。”16 现在,你们竟敢傲慢自夸,这实属邪恶。17 所以人若知道善而不去行,就是犯罪。

雅各书 4

English Standard Version

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1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[1] are at war within you?[2] (羅7:23; 彼前2:11)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 wrongly, to spend it on your passions. (约一5:14)4 You adulterous people![3] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (赛54:5; 耶2:2; 太6:24; 约15:19; 约一2:15)5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? (林前6:19; 林后6:16)6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” (箴3:34; 赛54:7; 太13:12; 彼前5:5)7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (弗4:27; 弗6:11; 彼前5:8)8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. (代下15:2; 赛1:16; 耶4:14; 哀3:57; 亚1:3; 玛3:7; 路15:20; 雅1:8)9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. (太5:4)10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. (赛57:15; 太23:12; 路1:52; 雅4:6)11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.[4] The one who speaks against a brother or 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. (太7:1; 林后12:20; 雅5:9; 彼前2:1)12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? (赛33:22; 太10:28; 羅14:4; 雅5:9)13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— (箴27:1; 路12:18)14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. (伯7:7; 诗102:3)15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” (徒18:21)16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. (林前5:6)17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. (路12:47; 约9:41; 彼后2:21)