James 4

1 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

1 你们彼此反目、互相争斗的起因是什么呢？不就是你们身体中不断交战的欲望吗？

2 You 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.

2 你们贪心，得不到就去杀人。你们嫉妒，得不到就互相争斗、彼此反目。你们得不到是因为你们不向上帝祈求。

3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

3 你们求也得不到是因为你们动机不纯，只为满足自己的欲望。

4 You 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.

4 你们这些对主不忠的人啊，难道还不明白与世俗为友就是与上帝为敌吗？所以，凡是与世俗为友的，都是上帝的敌人。

5 Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

5 圣经上说：“上帝所赐、住在我们心里的圣灵深愿我们完全属于祂。”你们以为这是空谈吗？

6 But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

6 但上帝赐给我们更大的恩典，所以圣经上说：“上帝阻挡骄傲的人，恩待谦卑的人。”

7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

7 因此，你们要服从上帝。要抵挡魔鬼，魔鬼必逃离你们。

8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

8 你们亲近上帝，上帝就必亲近你们。有罪的人啊，洗净你们的手吧！三心二意的人啊，洁净你们的心吧！

9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

9 你们要悲伤、忧愁、痛哭，转欢笑为悲哀，变欢乐为愁苦。

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.

10 你们要在主面前谦卑，祂必提升你们。

11 Brothers, 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.

11 弟兄姊妹，不要彼此抨击。抨击或论断弟兄姊妹就是抨击或论断律法。如果你论断律法，你就不是遵行律法的人，而是以审判者自居。

12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

12 设立律法和审判人的只有一位，就是能拯救人也能毁灭人的上帝。你是谁，竟然论断邻舍呢？

13 Come 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.”

13 你们有些人说：“今天或是明天，我们要往某某城去，在那里逗留一年半载，做生意赚钱。”

14 You 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.

14 其实你们根本不知道明天会发生什么事。你们的生命是什么呢？你们只不过像一阵雾气，出现片刻，就无影无踪了。

15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”

15 你们应当说：“如果主许可，我们就可以活着，可以做这事或做那事。”

16 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

16 现在，你们竟敢傲慢自夸，这实属邪恶。

17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.

17 所以人若知道善而不去行，就是犯罪。