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ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4
SBL Greek New Testament
ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4
SBL Greek New Testament
4 Πόθεν πόλεμοι καὶ [a]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 [b]μοιχαλίδες, οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ἡ φιλία τοῦ κόσμου ἔχθρα τοῦ θεοῦ ἐστιν; ὃς [c]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 [d]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 [e]ἐγγιεῖ ὑμῖν. καθαρίσατε χεῖρας, ἁμαρτωλοί, καὶ ἁγνίσατε καρδίας, δίψυχοι. 9 ταλαιπωρήσατε καὶ πενθήσατε καὶ κλαύσατε· ὁ γέλως ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος [f]μετατραπήτω καὶ ἡ χαρὰ εἰς κατήφειαν· 10 ταπεινώθητε ἐνώπιον [g]κυρίου, καὶ ὑψώσει ὑμᾶς.
11 Μὴ καταλαλεῖτε ἀλλήλων, ἀδελφοί· ὁ καταλαλῶν ἀδελφοῦ [h]ἢ κρίνων τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καταλαλεῖ νόμου καὶ κρίνει νόμον· εἰ δὲ νόμον κρίνεις, οὐκ εἶ ποιητὴς νόμου ἀλλὰ κριτής. 12 εἷς [i]ἐστιν νομοθέτης [j]καὶ κριτής, ὁ δυνάμενος σῶσαι καὶ ἀπολέσαι· σὺ δὲ τίς εἶ, [k]ὁ κρίνων τὸν [l]πλησίον;
13 Ἄγε νῦν οἱ λέγοντες· Σήμερον [m]ἢ αὔριον [n]πορευσόμεθα εἰς τήνδε τὴν πόλιν καὶ [o]ποιήσομεν ἐκεῖ [p]ἐνιαυτὸν καὶ [q]ἐμπορευσόμεθα καὶ [r]κερδήσομεν· 14 οἵτινες οὐκ ἐπίστασθε [s]τὸ τῆς αὔριον [t]ποία ἡ ζωὴ ὑμῶν· ἀτμὶς γάρ [u]ἐστε [v]ἡ πρὸς ὀλίγον φαινομένη, [w]ἔπειτα καὶ ἀφανιζομένη· 15 ἀντὶ τοῦ λέγειν ὑμᾶς· Ἐὰν ὁ κύριος [x]θελήσῃ, καὶ [y]ζήσομεν καὶ [z]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.
Footnotes
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:1 πόθεν WH Treg NIV ] – RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:4 μοιχαλίδες WH Treg NIV ] Μοιχοὶ καὶ μοιχαλίδες RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:4 ἐὰν WH NIV ] ἂν Treg RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:5 κατῴκισεν WH Treg NIV ] κατῴκησεν RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:8 ἐγγιεῖ Treg NIV RP ] ἐγγίσει WH
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:9 μετατραπήτω WH NIV ] μεταστραφήτω Treg RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:10 κυρίου WH Treg NIV ] τοῦ κυρίου RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:11 ἢ WH Treg NIV ] καὶ RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:12 ἐστιν WH ] + ὁ Treg NIV RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:12 καὶ κριτής WH Treg NIV ] – RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:12 ὁ κρίνων WH Treg NIV ] ὃς κρίνεις RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:12 πλησίον WH Treg NIV ] ἕτερον RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:13 ἢ WH Treg NIV ] καὶ RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:13 πορευσόμεθα WH Treg NIV ] πορευσώμεθα RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:13 ποιήσομεν WH NIV ] ποιήσωμεν Treg RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:13 ἐνιαυτὸν WH Treg NIV ] + ἕνα RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:13 ἐμπορευσόμεθα WH Treg NIV ] ἐμπορευσώμεθα RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:13 κερδήσομεν WH Treg NIV ] κερδήσωμεν RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:14 τὸ Treg NIV RP ] – WH
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:14 ποία WH NIV ] + γὰρ Treg RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:14 ἐστε WH Treg NIV ] ἔσται RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:14 ἡ Treg NIV RP ] – WH
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:14 ἔπειτα WH Treg NIV ] + δὲ RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:15 θελήσῃ Treg NIV RP ] θέλῃ WH
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:15 ζήσομεν WH Treg NIV ] ζήσωμεν RP
- ΙΑΚΩΒΟΥ 4:15 ποιήσομεν WH Treg NIV ] ποιήσωμεν RP
Jakobus 4
Luther Bibel 1545
Jakobus 4
Luther Bibel 1545
4 Woher kommt Streit und Krieg unter euch? Kommt's nicht daher: aus euren Wollüsten, die da streiten in euren Gliedern?
2 Ihr seid begierig, und erlanget's damit nicht; ihr hasset und neidet, und gewinnt damit nichts; ihr streitet und krieget. Ihr habt nicht, darum daß ihr nicht bittet;
3 ihr bittet, und nehmet nicht, darum daß ihr übel bittet, nämlich dahin, daß ihr's mit euren Wollüsten verzehrt.
4 Ihr Ehebrecher und Ehebrecherinnen, wisset ihr nicht, daß der Welt Freundschaft Gottes Feindschaft ist? Wer der Welt Freund sein will, der wird Gottes Feind sein.
5 Oder lasset ihr euch dünken, die Schrift sage umsonst: Der Geist, der in euch wohnt, begehrt und eifert?
6 Er gibt aber desto reichlicher Gnade. Darum sagt sie: "Gott widersteht den Hoffärtigen, aber den Demütigen gibt er Gnade."
7 So seid nun Gott untertänig. Widerstehet dem Teufel, so flieht er von euch;
8 nahet euch zu Gott, so naht er sich zu euch. Reiniget die Hände, ihr Sünder, und macht eure Herzen keusch, ihr Wankelmütigen.
9 Seid elend und traget Leid und weinet; euer Lachen verkehre sich in Weinen und eure Freude in Traurigkeit.
10 Demütiget euch vor Gott, so wir er euch erhöhen.
11 Afterredet nicht untereinander, liebe Brüder. Wer seinem Bruder afterredet und richtet seinen Bruder, der afterredet dem Gesetz und richtet das Gesetz. Richtest du aber das Gesetz, so bist du nicht ein Täter des Gesetzes, sondern ein Richter.
12 Es ist ein einiger Gesetzgeber, der kann selig machen und verdammen. Wer bist du, der du einen andern richtest?
13 Wohlan nun, die ihr sagt: Heute oder morgen wollen wir gehen in die oder die Stadt und wollen ein Jahr da liegen und Handel treiben und gewinnen;
14 die ihr nicht wisset, was morgen sein wird. Denn was ist euer Leben? Ein Dampf ist's, der eine kleine Zeit währt, danach aber verschwindet er.
15 Dafür ihr sagen solltet: So der HERR will und wir leben, wollen wir dies und das tun.
16 Nun aber rühmet ihr euch in eurem Hochmut. Aller solcher Ruhm ist böse.
17 Denn wer da weiß Gutes zu tun, und tut's nicht, dem ist's Sünde.
James 4
New International Version
James 4
New International Version
Submit Yourselves to God
4 What causes fights and quarrels(A) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle(B) within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill.(C) You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive,(D) because you ask with wrong motives,(E) that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous(F) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(G) means enmity against God?(H) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(I) 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[b]?(J) 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil,(L) and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you.(M) Wash your hands,(N) you sinners, and purify your hearts,(O) you double-minded.(P) 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.(Q) 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.(R)
11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another.(S) Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister[d] or judges them(T) speaks against the law(U) and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it,(V) but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge,(W) the one who is able to save and destroy.(X) But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?(Y)
Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Now listen,(Z) you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”(AA) 14 Why, 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.(AB) 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will,(AC) we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.(AD) 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.(AE)
Footnotes
- James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.
- James 4:5 Or that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely; or that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously
- James 4:6 Prov. 3:34
- James 4:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family.
James 4
King James Version
James 4
King James Version
4 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye 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.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4 Ye 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.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11 Speak 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.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13 Go 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:
14 Whereas 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.
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
James 4
New King James Version
James 4
New King James Version
Pride Promotes Strife
4 Where do [a]wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure (A)that war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and [b]war. [c]Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 (B)You ask and do not receive, (C)because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 [d]Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that (D)friendship with the world is enmity with God? (E)Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, (F)“The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:
(G)“God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.”
Humility Cures Worldliness
7 Therefore submit to God. (H)Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 (I)Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (J)Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and (K)purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 (L)Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 (M)Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
Do Not Judge a Brother
11 (N)Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother (O)and judges his brother, speaks evil of 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 [e]Lawgiver, (P)who is able to save and to destroy. (Q)Who[f] are you to judge [g]another?
Do Not Boast About Tomorrow
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow [h]we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? (R)It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, (S)“If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. (T)All such boasting is evil.
17 Therefore, (U)to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Footnotes
- James 4:1 battles
- James 4:2 battle
- James 4:2 NU, M omit Yet
- James 4:4 NU omits Adulterers and
- James 4:12 NU adds and Judge
- James 4:12 NU, M But who
- James 4:12 NU a neighbor
- James 4:13 M let us
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