야고보서 4

Friendship with the world

¹Where do the wars and the fights among you come from? Do they not come from here, from your pleasures that are at war inside you? ²You crave, and you do not have. You murder and you envy, and you cannot get what you want. You fight and you wage war.^ab You lack, because you do not ask. ³And when you do ask, you do not receive, because your asking is wrong: you want to spend what you get on your pleasures. ⁴Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God?^c So whoever decides to be a friend of the world is taking a stand as an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you suppose that Scripture speaks for nothing when it says, “He longs with jealous love for the spirit he caused to live in us”?^{def 6}But the grace he gives is greater. That is why it says, “God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble he gives grace.” ⁷So place yourselves under God. Stand against the devil, and he will run from you. ⁸Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Wash your hands clean, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are divided in mind. ⁹Feel your misery, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter turn to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰Make yourselves low before the Lord, and he will raise you high.

Do not judge one another

¹¹Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks against a brother or sister or passes judgment on a brother or sister speaks against the law and judges the law. And if you judge the law, you are not doing the law; you are judging it. ¹²There is one Lawgiver and Judge alone, the one who has power to save and to destroy. But you, who are you to sit in judgment on your neighbor? ¹³Listen now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to a certain city, stay there a year, run a business, and make a profit.” ¹⁴Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of vapor, seen for a short time and then gone.^{gh 15}What you ought to say instead is this: “If the Lord wills, we will live, and we will do this or that.” ¹⁶But as things are, you boast in your arrogant claims. Every boast of this kind is evil. ¹⁷So when someone knows what is good to do and does not do it, that person sins.