雅各书 4

聖經當代譯本修訂版

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1 你們彼此衝突、互相鬥毆的起因是什麼呢?不就是你們身體中不斷交戰的慾望嗎?2 你們貪心,得不到就去殺人。你們嫉妒,得不到就爭吵、打鬥。你們得不到是因為你們不向上帝祈求。3 你們求也得不到是因為你們動機不純,只求享樂和滿足自己的慾望。4 你們這些對主不忠的人啊,難道還不明白與世俗為友就是與上帝爲敵嗎?所以,凡是與世俗為友的,都是上帝的敵人。5 聖經上說:「上帝所賜、住在我們心裡的聖靈深願我們完全屬於祂。」你們以為這是空談嗎?6 但上帝賜給我們更大的恩典,所以聖經上說:「上帝阻擋驕傲的人,恩待謙卑的人。」7 因此,你們要服從上帝,抵擋魔鬼,魔鬼必逃離你們。8 你們親近上帝,上帝就必親近你們。有罪的人啊,洗淨你們的手吧!三心二意的人啊,潔淨你們的心吧!9 你們要悲傷、憂愁、痛哭,轉歡笑為悲哀,變歡樂為愁苦。10 你們要在主面前謙卑,祂必擢升你們。11 弟兄姊妹,不要彼此批評。批評、論斷弟兄姊妹就等於是批評、論斷律法。如果你論斷律法,你就不是遵行律法的人,而是以審判者自居。12 設立律法和審判人的只有一位,就是能拯救人也能毀滅人的上帝。你是誰,竟然論斷別人呢?13 你們有些人說:「今天或是明天,我們要往某某城去,在那裡逗留一年半載,做生意賺錢。」14 其實你們根本不知道明天會發生什麼事。你們的生命是什麼呢?你們只不過像一陣霧氣,出現片刻,就無影無蹤了。15 你們只當說:「如果主許可,我們就可以活著,可以做這事或做那事。」16 現在,你們竟敢傲慢自誇,這實屬邪惡。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)