James 4
King James Version with ApocryphaTranslation
King James Version with Apocrypha
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
1Unde bella et lites in vobis? nonne hinc: ex concupiscentiis vestris, quæ militant in membris vestris?
2Ye 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.
2concupiscitis, et non habetis: occiditis, et zelatis: et non potestis adipisci: litigatis, et belligeratis, et non habetis, propter quod non postulatis.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
3Petitis, et non accipitis: eo quod male petatis: ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis.
4Ye 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.
4Adulteri, nescitis quia amicitia hujus mundi inimica est Dei? quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse sæculi hujus, inimicus Dei constituitur.
5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
5An putatis quia inaniter Scriptura dicat: Ad invidiam concupiscit spiritus qui habitat in vobis?
6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
6majorem autem dat gratiam. Propter quod dicit: Deus superbis resistit, humilibus autem dat gratiam.
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
7Subditi ergo estote Deo, resistite autem diabolo, et fugiet a vobis.
8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
8Appropinquate Deo, et appropinquabit vobis. Emundate manus, peccatores: et purificate corda, duplices animo.
9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
9Miseri estote, et lugete, et plorate: risus vester in luctum convertatur, et gaudium in mœrorem.
10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
10Humiliamini in conspectu Domini, et exaltabit vos.
11Speak 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.
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 one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
12Unus est legislator et judex, qui potest perdere et liberare.
13Go 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:
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:
14Whereas 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.
14qui ignoratis quid erit in crastino.
15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall 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.
16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
16Nunc autem exsultatis in superbiis vestris. Omnis exsultatio talis, maligna est.
17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
17Scienti igitur bonum facere, et non facienti, peccatum est illi.
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