雅4:1 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？
雅4:1 What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
雅4:2 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；
雅4:2 You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.
雅4:3 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。
雅4:3 You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
雅4:4 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。
雅4:4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.
雅4:5 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？
雅4:5 Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?
雅4:6 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。”
雅4:6 But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.
雅4:7 你们应当顺服 神，抵挡魔鬼，魔鬼就逃避你们。
雅4:7 For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.
雅4:8 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。
雅4:8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
雅4:9 你们要愁苦、悲哀、哭泣，把欢笑变为伤痛，把快乐变为忧愁。
雅4:9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
雅4:10 你们务要在主面前谦卑，他就使你们高升。
雅4:10 Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
雅4:11 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。
雅4:11 Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.
雅4:12 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？
雅4:12 There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge?
雅4:13 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。”
雅4:13 How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:
雅4:14 其实明天怎样，你们并不知道。你们的生命是什么呢？你们本来是过眼烟云，转瞬之间就消逝了。
雅4:14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
雅4:15 你们倒不如说：“主若愿意，我们就可以活着，作这事或作那事。”
雅4:15 But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.
雅4:16 但现在你们竟然张狂自夸；这一切自夸，都是邪恶的。
雅4:16 But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.
雅4:17 人若知道该行善事，却不去行，这就是他的罪了。
雅4:17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.