1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. 3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? 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, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit." 14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that." 16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. 17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

1 你们中间的争执和打斗是从哪里来的呢？不是从你们肢体中好斗的私欲来的吗？

2 你们放纵贪欲， 如果得不到， 就杀人； 你们嫉妒， 如果一无所得， 就打斗争执。你们得不到， 因为你们不求；

3 你们求也得不到， 因为你们的动机不良， 要把所得的耗费在你们的私欲上。

4 淫乱的人哪， 你们不知道与世俗为友， 就是与 神为敌吗？所以与世俗为友的， 就成了 神的仇敌。

5 圣经说： " 神爱他那安置在我们里面的灵， 爱到嫉妒的地步"（或译： " 神安置在我们里面的灵， 爱到嫉妒的地步"）， 你们想这话是徒然的吗？

6 但 神所赐的恩更大； 所以圣经上说： " 神抵挡骄傲的人， 赐恩给谦卑的人。"

7 你们应当顺服 神， 抵挡魔鬼， 魔鬼就逃避你们。

8 你们应当亲近 神， 神就亲近你们。罪人啊， 要洁净你们的手； 三心两意的人哪， 要清洁你们的心。

9 你们要愁苦、悲哀、哭泣， 把欢笑变为伤痛， 把快乐变为忧愁。

10 你们务要在主面前谦卑， 他就使你们高升。

11 弟兄们， 不要互相毁谤； 人若毁谤弟兄， 或判断弟兄， 就是毁谤律法、判断律法了。如果你判断律法， 就不是实行律法的人， 而是审判官了。

12 立法的， 审判的， 只有一位， 就是那能拯救人， 也能毁灭人的 神； 你这判断邻舍的， 你是谁呢？

13 你们说： "今天或明天， 我们要到某城去， 在那里住一年， 作生意赚钱。"

14 其实明天怎样， 你们并不知道。你们的生命是什么呢？你们本来是过眼云烟， 转瞬之间就消逝了。

15 你们倒不如说： "主若愿意， 我们就可以活着， 作这事或作那事。"

16 但现在你们竟然张狂自夸； 这一切自夸， 都是邪恶的。

17 人若知道该行善事， 却不去行， 这就是他的罪了。