Ιακωβου 4
1 Πόθεν πόλεμοι καὶ πόθεν μάχαι ἐν ὑμῖν; Οὐκ ἐντεῦθεν ἐκ τῶν ἡδονῶν ὑμῶν, τῶν στρατευομένων ἐν τοῖς μέλεσιν ὑμῶν;
Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?
2 Ἐπιθυμεῖτε καὶ οὐκ ἔχετε· φονεύετε καὶ ζηλοῦτε, καὶ οὐ δύνασθε ἐπιτυχεῖν· μάχεσθε καὶ πολεμεῖτε. Οὐκ ἔχετε, διὰ τὸ μὴ αἰτεῖσθαι ὑμᾶς·
Ye desire, and ye have not: ye are envious, and jealous, and cannot obtain: ye fight and contend; but ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 αἰτεῖτε καὶ οὐ λαμβάνετε, διότι κακῶς αἰτεῖσθε, ἵνα ἐν ταῖς ἡδοναῖς ὑμῶν δαπανήσητε.
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
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.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5 Ἢ δοκεῖτε ὅτι κενῶς ἡ Γραφὴ λέγει, “Πρὸς φθόνον ἐπιποθεῖ τὸ ˚Πνεῦμα ὃ κατῴκισεν ἐν ἡμῖν;”
Do ye think the scripture speaks in vain? or does the Spirit that dwelleth in us, excite to envy?
6 Μείζονα δὲ δίδωσιν χάριν. Διὸ λέγει, “Ὁ ˚Θεὸς ὑπερηφάνοις ἀντιτάσσεται, ταπεινοῖς δὲ δίδωσιν χάριν.”
No, He giveth more grace: wherefore it is said, God resisteth the proud, but sheweth favor to the humble.
7 Ὑποτάγητε οὖν τῷ ˚Θεῷ. Ἀντίστητε δὲ τῷ διαβόλῳ, καὶ φεύξεται ἀφʼ ὑμῶν.
Submit yourselves therefore to God: resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Ἐγγίσατε τῷ ˚Θεῷ, καὶ ἐγγιεῖ ὑμῖν. Καθαρίσατε χεῖρας, ἁμαρτωλοί, καὶ ἁγνίσατε καρδίας, δίψυχοι.
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you: cleanse your hands, O sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Ταλαιπωρήσατε, καὶ πενθήσατε, καὶ κλαύσατε. Ὁ γέλως ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος μετατραπήτω, καὶ ἡ χαρὰ εἰς κατήφειαν.
Be grieved, and mourn, and weep: let your mirth be turned into mourning, and your joy to sadness.
10 Ταπεινώθητε ἐνώπιον ˚Κυρίου, καὶ ὑψώσει ὑμᾶς.
Be humbled before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
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.
Speak not against one another, my brethren; he that speaketh against his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 Εἷς ἐστιν νομοθέτης καὶ κριτής, ὁ δυνάμενος σῶσαι καὶ ἀπολέσαι. Σὺ δὲ τίς εἶ, ὁ κρίνων τὸν πλησίον;
Now there is but one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou then that judgest another?
13 Ἄγε νῦν, οἱ λέγοντες, “Σήμερον ἢ αὔριον, πορευσόμεθα εἰς τήνδε τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ποιήσομεν ἐκεῖ ἐνιαυτὸν, καὶ ἐμπορευσόμεθα, καὶ κερδήσομεν.”
Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go to such a city, and spend a year there, and trade and get gain;
14 Οἵτινες οὐκ ἐπίστασθε τῆς αὔριον, ποία γὰρ ζωὴ ὑμῶν; Ἀτμὶς γάρ ἐστε, ἡ πρὸς ὀλίγον φαινομένη, ἔπειτα καὶ ἀφανιζομένη.
(though ye know not what will be on the morrow; for what is your life? a vapor, which appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away: ) whereas ye ought to say,
15 Ἀντὶ τοῦ λέγειν ὑμᾶς, “Ἐὰν ὁ ˚Κύριος θελήσῃ, καὶ ζήσομεν καὶ ποιήσομεν, τοῦτο ἢ ἐκεῖνο.”
If the Lord will, and we should live, and do this or that:
16 Νῦν δὲ καυχᾶσθε ἐν ταῖς ἀλαζονείαις ὑμῶν. Πᾶσα καύχησις τοιαύτη πονηρά ἐστιν.
but ye glory in your presumption: all such glorying is wicked.
17 Εἰδότι οὖν καλὸν ποιεῖν, καὶ μὴ ποιοῦντι, ἁμαρτία αὐτῷ ἐστιν.
To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.
