James 4
1 Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?
ποθεν πολεμοι και μαχαι εν υμιν ουκ εντευθεν εκ των ηδονων υμων των στρατευομενων εν τοις μελεσιν υμων
2 You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.
επιθυμειτε και ουκ εχετε φονευετε και ζηλουτε και ου δυνασθε επιτυχειν μαχεσθε και πολεμειτε ουκ εχετε δε δια το μη αιτεισθαι υμας
3 You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
αιτειτε και ου λαμβανετε διοτι κακως αιτεισθε ινα εν ταις ηδοναις υμων δαπανησητε
4 You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.
μοιχοι και μοιχαλιδες ουκ οιδατε οτι η φιλια του κοσμου εχθρα του θεου εστιν ος αν ουν βουληθη φιλος ειναι του κοσμου εχθρος του θεου καθισταται
5 Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: “The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?”
η δοκειτε οτι κενως η γραφη λεγει προς φθονον επιποθει το πνευμα ο κατωκησεν εν ημιν
6 But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: “God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”
μειζονα δε διδωσιν χαριν διο λεγει ο θεος υπερηφανοις αντιτασσεται ταπεινοις δε διδωσιν χαριν
7 Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
υποταγητε ουν τω θεω αντιστητε τω διαβολω και φευξεται αφ υμων
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!
εγγισατε τω θεω και εγγιει υμιν καθαρισατε χειρας αμαρτωλοι και αγνισατε καρδιας διψυχοι
9 Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow.
ταλαιπωρησατε και πενθησατε και κλαυσατε ο γελως υμων εις πενθος μεταστραφητω και η χαρα εις κατηφειαν
10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
ταπεινωθητε ενωπιον του κυριου και υψωσει υμας
11 Brothers, do not choose to slander one another. Whoever slanders his brother, or whoever judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
μη καταλαλειτε αλληλων αδελφοι ο καταλαλων αδελφου και κρινων τον αδελφον αυτου καταλαλει νομου και κρινει νομον ει δε νομον κρινεις ουκ ει ποιητης νομου αλλα κριτης
12 There is one lawgiver and one judge. He is able to destroy, and he is able to set free.
εις εστιν ο νομοθετης ο δυναμενος σωσαι και απολεσαι συ τις ει ος κρινεις τον ετερον
13 But who are you to judge your neighbor? Consider this, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into that city, and certainly we will spend a year there, and we will do business, and we will make our profit,”
αγε νυν οι λεγοντες σημερον {VAR1: και } {VAR2: η } αυριον πορευσωμεθα εις τηνδε την πολιν και {VAR1: ποιησωμεν } {VAR2: ποιησομεν } εκει ενιαυτον ενα και {VAR1: εμπορευσωμεθα και κερδησωμεν } {VAR2: εμπορευσομεθα και κερδησομεν }
14 consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.
οιτινες ουκ επιστασθε το της αυριον ποια γαρ η ζωη υμων ατμις γαρ εστιν η προς ολιγον φαινομενη επειτα δε αφανιζομενη
15 For what is your life? It is a mist that appears for a brief time, and afterwards will vanish away. So what you ought to say is: “If the Lord wills,” or, “If we live,” we will do this or that.
αντι του λεγειν υμας εαν ο κυριος θεληση και {VAR1: ζησωμεν και ποιησωμεν } {VAR2: ζησομεν και ποιησομεν } τουτο η εκεινο
16 But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked.
νυν δε καυχασθε εν ταις αλαζονειαις υμων πασα καυχησις τοιαυτη πονηρα εστιν
17 Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.
ειδοτι ουν καλον ποιειν και μη ποιουντι αμαρτια αυτω εστιν
