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。

1 Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?2 ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,`6 and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?`7 be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;8 draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!9 be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;10 be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.11 Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;12 one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other?13 Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;`14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;15 instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;`16 and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;17 to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.