James 4
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
1Unde bella et lites in vobis? nonne hinc: ex concupiscentiis vestris, quæ militant in membris vestris?
2You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
2concupiscitis, et non habetis: occiditis, et zelatis: et non potestis adipisci: litigatis, et belligeratis, et non habetis, propter quod non postulatis.
3And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
3Petitis, et non accipitis: eo quod male petatis: ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis.
4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
4Adulteri, nescitis quia amicitia hujus mundi inimica est Dei? quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse sæculi hujus, inimicus Dei constituitur.
5Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
5An putatis quia inaniter Scriptura dicat: Ad invidiam concupiscit spiritus qui habitat in vobis?
6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
6majorem autem dat gratiam. Propter quod dicit: Deus superbis resistit, humilibus autem dat gratiam.
7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
7Subditi ergo estote Deo, resistite autem diabolo, et fugiet a vobis.
8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
8Appropinquate Deo, et appropinquabit vobis. Emundate manus, peccatores: et purificate corda, duplices animo.
9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
9Miseri estote, et lugete, et plorate: risus vester in luctum convertatur, et gaudium in mœrorem.
10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
10Humiliamini in conspectu Domini, et exaltabit vos.
11Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
11Nolite detrahere alterutrum fratres. Qui detrahit fratri, aut qui judicat fratrem suum, detrahit legi, et judicat legem. Si autem judicas legem, non es factor legis, sed judex.
12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
12Unus est legislator et judex, qui potest perdere et liberare.
13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
13Tu autem quis es, qui judicas proximum? Ecce nunc qui dicitis: Hodie, aut crastino ibimus in illam civitatem, et faciemus ibi quidem annum, et mercabimur, et lucrum faciemus:
14You 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.
14qui ignoratis quid erit in crastino.
15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
15Quæ est enim vita vestra? vapor est ad modicum parens, et deinceps exterminabitur; pro eo ut dicatis: Si Dominus voluerit. Et: Si vixerimus, faciemus hoc, aut illud.
16As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
16Nunc autem exsultatis in superbiis vestris. Omnis exsultatio talis, maligna est.
17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
17Scienti igitur bonum facere, et non facienti, peccatum est illi.
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