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James 4

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1 Πόθεν πόλεμοι καὶ πόθεν μάχαι ἐν ὑμῖν; οὐκ ἐντεῦθεν, ἐκ τῶν ἡδονῶν ὑμῶν τῶν στρατευομένων ἐν τοῖς μέλεσιν ὑμῶν; 2 ἐπιθυμεῖτε, καὶ οὐκ ἔχετε: φονεύετε καὶ ζηλοῦτε, καὶ οὐ δύνασθε ἐπιτυχεῖν: μάχεσθε καὶ πολεμεῖτε. οὐκ ἔχετε διὰ τὸ μὴ αἰτεῖσθαι ὑμᾶς: 3 αἰτεῖτε καὶ οὐ λαμβάνετε, διότι κακῶς αἰτεῖσθε, ἵνα ἐν ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ὑμῶν δαπανήσητε. 4 μοιχαλίδες, οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ἡ φιλία τοῦ κόσμου ἔχθρα τοῦ θεοῦ ἐστιν; ὃς ἐὰν οὖν βουληθῇ φίλος εἶναι τοῦ κόσμου, ἐχθρὸς τοῦ θεοῦ καθίσταται. 5 ἢ δοκεῖτε ὅτι κενῶς ἡ γραφὴ λέγει, πρὸς φθόνον ἐπιποθεῖ τὸ πνεῦμα ὃ κατῴκισεν ἐν ἡμῖν; 6 μείζονα δὲ δίδωσιν χάριν: διὸ λέγει, ὁ θεὸς ὑπερηφάνοις ἀντιτάσσεται, ταπεινοῖς δὲ δίδωσιν χάριν. 7 ὑποτάγητε οὖν τῷ θεῷ: ἀντίστητε δὲ τῷ διαβόλῳ, καὶ φεύξεται ἀφ' ὑμῶν: 8 ἐγγίσατε τῷ θεῷ, καὶ ἐγγίσει ὑμῖν. καθαρίσατε χεῖρας, ἁμαρτωλοί, καὶ ἁγνίσατε καρδίας, δίψυχοι. 9 ταλαιπωρήσατε καὶ πενθήσατε, καὶ κλαύσατε: ὁ γέλως ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος μετατραπήτω καὶ ἡ χαρὰ εἰς κατήφειαν. 10 ταπεινώθητε ἐνώπιον κυρίου, καὶ ὑψώσει ὑμᾶς. 11 Μὴ καταλαλεῖτε ἀλλήλων, ἀδελφοί: ὁ καταλαλῶν ἀδελφοῦ ἢ κρίνων τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καταλαλεῖ νόμου καὶ κρίνει νόμον: εἰ δὲ νόμον κρίνεις, οὐκ εἶ ποιητὴς νόμου ἀλλὰ κριτής. 12 εἷς ἐστιν νομοθέτης καὶ κριτής, ὁ δυνάμενος σῶσαι καὶ ἀπολέσαι: σὺ δὲ τίς εἶ, ὁ κρίνων τὸν πλησίον;

1 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? 2 You covet, and have not: you kill and envy and cannot obtain. You contend and war, and you have not: because you ask not. 3 You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences. 4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the scripture says in vain: To envy does the spirit covet which dwells in you? 6 But he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says: God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. 7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil: and he will fly from you. 8 Draw near to God: and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded. 9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into sorrow. 10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord: and he will exalt you. 11 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracts his brother, or he that judges his brother, detracts the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.

1 Unde bella et lites in vobis? nonne hinc : ex concupiscentiis vestris, quæ militant in membris vestris? 2 concupiscitis, et non habetis : occiditis, et zelatis : et non potestis adipisci : litigatis, et belligeratis, et non habetis, propter quod non postulatis. 3 Petitis, et non accipitis : eo quod male petatis : ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis. 4 Adulteri, nescitis quia amicitia hujus mundi inimica est Dei? quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse sæculi hujus, inimicus Dei constituitur. 5 An putatis quia inaniter Scriptura dicat : Ad invidiam concupiscit spiritus qui habitat in vobis? 6 majorem autem dat gratiam. Propter quod dicit : Deus superbis resistit, humilibus autem dat gratiam. 7 Subditi ergo estote Deo, resistite autem diabolo, et fugiet a vobis. 8 Appropinquate Deo, et appropinquabit vobis. Emundate manus, peccatores : et purificate corda, duplices animo. 9 Miseri estote, et lugete, et plorate : risus vester in luctum convertatur, et gaudium in mœrorem. 10 Humiliamini in conspectu Domini, et exaltabit vos. 11 Nolite 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. 12 Unus est legislator et judex, qui potest perdere et liberare.

13 Ἄγε νῦν οἱ λέγοντες, σήμερον ἢ αὔριον πορευσόμεθα εἰς τήνδε τὴν πόλιν καὶ ποιήσομεν ἐκεῖ ἐνιαυτὸν καὶ ἐμπορευσόμεθα καὶ κερδήσομεν: 14 οἵτινες οὐκ ἐπίστασθε τῆς αὔριον ποία ἡ ζωὴ ὑμῶν. ἀτμὶς γάρ ἐστε πρὸς ὀλίγον φαινομένη, ἔπειτα καὶ ἀφανιζομένη: 15 ἀντὶ τοῦ λέγειν ὑμᾶς: ἐὰν ὁ κύριος θέλῃ, καὶ ζήσομεν καὶ ποιήσομεν τοῦτο ἢ ἐκεῖνο. 16 νῦν δὲ καυχᾶσθε ἐν ταῖς ἀλαζονείαις ὑμῶν: πᾶσα καύχησις τοιαύτη πονηρά ἐστιν. 17 εἰδότι οὖν καλὸν ποιεῖν καὶ μὴ ποιοῦντι, ἁμαρτία αὐτῷ ἐστιν.

13 But who are you that judge your neighbour? Behold, now you that say: Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain. 14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. 15 For what is your life? It is a vapour which appears for a little while and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and, If we shall live, we will do this or that. 16 But now you rejoice in your arrogancies. All such rejoicing is wicked. 17 To him therefore who knows to do good and does it not, to him it is sin.

13 Tu 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: 14 qui ignoratis quid erit in crastino. 15 Quæ 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. 16 Nunc autem exsultatis in superbiis vestris. Omnis exsultatio talis, maligna est. 17 Scienti igitur bonum facere, et non facienti, peccatum est illi.