1What 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)2You 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.3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. (约一5:14)4You 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)5Or 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)6But 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)7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (弗4:27; 弗6:11; 彼前5:8)8Draw 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)9Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. (太5:4)10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. (赛57:15; 太23:12; 路1:52; 雅4:6)11Do 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)12There 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)
Boasting About Tomorrow
13Come 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)14yet 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)15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” (徒18:21)16As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. (林前5:6)17So 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)