James 4

1 Now I will tell you why you are fighting among yourselves and quarreling with each other [RHQ]. It is [RHQ] because each of you wants to do evil things [PRS]. You keep on wanting to do things that are not [what God wants you to do].

Kusta sodat ja tappelukset tulevat teidän seassanne? Eikö siitä, (nimittäin) teidän himoistanne, jotka teidän jäsenissänne sotivat?

2 There are things that you [very much] desire to have, but you do not get [those things, so] you [want to] kill [HYP] [those who hinder you from getting them]. You desire what [other people have], but you are unable to get [what you desire, so] you quarrel and fight [with one another] [HYP]. You do not have [what you desire] because you do not ask [God for it].

Te himoitsette, ja ette saa sillä mitään. Te kadehditte ja kiivaatte, ja ette sillä voita mitään. Te soditte ja tappelette, ja ei teillä mitään ole, ettette mitään anokaan.

3 [And even when] you do ask [him], he does not give you [what you ask for] because you are asking for the wrong reason. [You are asking for things] in order that you may use them just to (enjoy yourselves/make yourselves happy).

Te anotte, ja ette saa, että te kelvottomasti anotte, että te teidän himoissanne sen kuluttaisitte.

4 [Like] a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, you [are being unfaithful to God and not obeying him any more] [MET]. Those who are behaving as evil people do [MTY] (OR, Those who love [the evil pleasures of] this world) are hostile toward God. Perhaps you do not realize that [RHQ]. So those who decide to act as evil people do [MTY] become enemies of God.

Te huorintekiät ja huorat! ettekö te tiedä, että maailman ystävyys on viha Jumalaa vastaan? Joka siis tahtoo maailman ystävä olla, hän tulee Jumalan vihamieheksi.

5 (Surely you remember that [God told us in] the Scriptures that he eagerly desires that his Spirit, who lives in us, will help us to love [God] only!/Do you think that it is for no reason that [God told us in] the Scriptures that he strongly desires that his Spirit, who lives in us, will help us to love [God] only?) [RHQ] God has a reason for desiring that.

Eli luuletteko, että Raamattu sanoo turhaan: henki, joka meissä asuu, himoitsee kateutta vastaan?

6 [It is because] he is kind [to us and he] wants very much to help us. That is why (someone said/[King Solomon] wrote) [in the Scriptures], “God opposes those who are proud, but he helps those who are humble.”

Ja antaa runsaasti armon; sentähden hän sanoo: Jumala seisoo ylpeitä vastaan, mutta nöyrille antaa hän armon.

7 So submit yourselves to God. (Resist the devil/Refuse to do what the devil wants), and [as a result] he will run away from you.

Niin olkaat siis Jumalalle alamaiset, mutta vastaan seisokaat perkelettä, niin hän teistä pakenee.

8 Come near [spiritually] to God, and [as a result] he will come near to you. You who are sinners, stop doing what is wrong, and do only what is good [SYN, MET]. You who cannot decide [whether you will] ([commit yourselves to God/obey God completely]), stop thinking wrong thoughts, and think only pure thoughts [MTY].

Lähestykäät Jumalaa, niin hän lähestyy teitä. Puhdistakaat kätenne, te syntiset, ja peratkaat teidän sydämenne, te kaksimieliset.

9 Be sorrowful and weep/mourn [DOU] [because of the wrong things that you have done]. Do not laugh [DOU], ([enjoying only what you selfishly/enjoying only what you yourselves]) [desire]. Instead, be sad [because you have done what is wrong].

Olkaat surulliset, murehtikaat ja itkekäät. Teidän naurunne kääntyköön itkuksi ja ilonne murheeksi.

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and [as a result] he will honor you.

Nöyryyttäkäät teitänne Jumalan kasvoin edessä, niin hän teitä ylentää.

11 My fellow believers, stop saying evil things about one another, [because] those who say something evil about a fellow believer and [are therefore] condemning [one who is like] a brother [to them] are really speaking against the law [that God gave us to obey]. [In this law, God commanded] [MTY] [us to love others], and those who say evil things about fellow believers, [it is as though] they are saying that we do not have to do what [God] commanded. If you [(sg)] say that you do not have to do what God commanded, you [(sg)] are not obeying God’s law. Instead, you [(sg)] are claiming that you [have the authority] to condemn [others].

Älkäät toinen toistanne panetelko, rakkaat veljet: joka veljeänsä panettelee ja veljensä tuomitsee, se panettelee lakia ja tuomitsee lain. Mutta jos sinä tuomitset lain, niin et sinä ole lain tekiä vaan tuomari.

12 [But in fact], there is only one who [has the authority to] tell [people] what is right to do and to condemn [them, and that is God]. He alone is able to save [people] or to destroy people. [So], (you [(sg)] certainly have no right to decide how God should punish other people./who are you to decide how God should punish other people?) [RHQ]

Yksi on lain antaja, joka voi vapahtaa ja kadottaa. Kuka sinä olet, joka toista tuomitset?

13 [Some of you] are [arrogantly] saying, “Today or tomorrow we will go to a certain city. We will spend a year there and we will buy and sell things and earn a lot of money.” Now, you listen to me!

Nyt hyvin, te jotka sanotte: menkäämme tänäpänä taikka huomenna siihen eli siihen kaupunkiin, ja viettäkäämme siinä yksi vuosi, ja tehkäämme kauppaa ja voittakaamme,

14 [You should not talk like that, because] you do not know what will happen tomorrow, and you do not know [how long] you will live! Your life [is short] [MET], [like] a mist that appears for a short time and then disappears.

Jotka ette tiedä, mitä huomenna tapahtuu. Sillä mikä on teidän elämänne? Se on löyhkä, joka vähäksi (hetkeksi) näkyy, mutta sitte katoo.

15 Instead of [what you are saying], you should say, “If the Lord wills/desires, we will live and do this or that.”

Mutta teidän pitää sanoman: jos Herra tahtoo, ja me elämme, niin me tätä taikka sitä tahdomme tehdä.

16 But what you are doing is boasting about all the things that you arrogantly [plan to do]. Your boasting like that is evil.

Mutta nyt te kerskaatte teidän ylpeydessänne. Kaikki senkaltainen kerskaus on paha.

17 So if anyone knows the right thing that he should do, [but] he does not do it, he is sinning.

Sillä joka taitaa hyvää tehdä, ja ei tee, niin se on hänelle synniksi.