James 4
1 From whence are warres and contentions among you? are they not hence, euen of your pleasures, that fight in your members?
Unde bella, et lites in vobis? Nonne hinc? ex concupiscentiis vestris, quæ militant in membris vestris?
2 Ye lust, and haue not: ye enuie, and desire immoderately, and cannot obtaine: ye fight and warre, and get nothing, because ye aske not.
Concupiscitis, et non habetis: occiditis, et zelatis: et non potestis adipisci: litigatis, et belligeratis, et non habetis, propter quod non postulatis.
3 Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.
Petitis, et non accipitis: eo quod male petatis: ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, knowe ye not that the amitie of the world is the enimitie of God? Whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, maketh himselfe the enemie of God.
Adulteri nescitis quia amicitia huius mundi, inimica est Dei? Quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse sæculi huius, inimicus Dei constituitur.
5 Doe ye thinke that the Scripture sayeth in vaine, The spirit that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie?
An putatis quia inaniter Scriptura dicat: Ad invidiam concupiscit spiritus, qui habitat in vobis?
6 But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble.
Maiorem autem dat gratiam. Propter quod dicit: Deus superbis resistit, humilibus autem dat gratiam.
7 Submit your selues to God: resist the deuill, and he will flee from you.
Subditi ergo estote Deo, resistite autem diabolo, et fugiet a vobis.
8 Drawe neere to God, and he will drawe neere to you. Clense your handes, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded.
Appropinquate Deo, et appropinquabit vobis. Emundate manus, peccatores: et purificate corda, duplices animo.
9 Suffer afflictions, and sorrowe ye, and weepe: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your ioy into heauinesse.
Miseri estote, et lugete, et plorate: risus vester in luctum convertatur, et gaudium in mœrorem.
10 Cast downe your selues before the Lord, and he will lift you vp.
Humiliamini in conspectu Domini, et exaltabit vos.
11 Speake not euill one of another, brethren. He that speaketh euill of his brother, or he that condemneth his brother, speaketh euill of ye Law, and condemneth the Lawe: and if thou condemnest the Lawe, thou art not an obseruer of the Lawe, but a iudge.
Nolite detrahere alterutrum fratres. Qui detrahit fratri, aut qui iudicat fratrem suum, detrahit legi, et iudicat legem. Si autem iudicas legem: non es factor legis, sed iudex.
12 There is one Lawgiuer, which is able to saue, and to destroy. Who art thou that iudgest another man?
Unus est legislator, et iudex, qui potest perdere, et liberare.
13 Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morowe we will goe into such a citie, and continue there a yeere, and bye and sell, and get gaine,
Tu autem quis es, qui iudicas proximum? Ecce nunc qui dicitis: Hodie, aut crastino ibimus in illam civitatem, et faciemus ibi quidem annum, et mercabimur, et lucrum faciemus:
14 (And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)
qui ignoratis quid erit in crastino.
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and, if we liue, we will doe this or that.
Quæ est enim vita vestra? vapor est ad modicum parens, et deinceps exterminabitur; pro eo ut dicatis: Si Dominus voluerit. Et: Si vixerimus, faciemus hoc, aut illud.
16 But now ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.
Nunc autem exultatis in superbiis vestris. Omnis exultatio talis, maligna est.
17 Therefore, to him that knoweth how to doe well, and doeth it not, to him it is sinne.
Scienti igitur bonum facere, et non facienti, peccatum est illi.
