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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation
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| 4:1 |
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? |
Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? |
| 4:2 |
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. |
ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; |
| 4:3 |
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. |
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'. |
| 4:4 |
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. |
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set. |
| 4:5 |
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? |
Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,' |
| 4:6 |
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. |
and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?' |
| 4:7 |
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. |
be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; |
| 4:8 |
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. |
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! |
| 4:9 |
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. |
be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; |
| 4:10 |
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. |
be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you. |
| 4:11 |
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. |
Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge; |
| 4:12 |
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? |
one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other? |
| 4:13 |
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: |
Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' |
| 4:14 |
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. |
who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; |
| 4:15 |
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. |
instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;' |
| 4:16 |
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. |
and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil; |
| 4:17 |
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. |
to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him. |
