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1 Whence {come} wars and whence fightings among you? {Is it} not thence, -from your pleasures, which war in your members?2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume {it} in your pleasures.4 Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be {the} friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.5 Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?6 But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against {the} proud, but gives grace to {the} lowly.7 Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse {your} hands, sinners, and purify {your} hearts, ye double-minded.9 Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and {your} joy to heaviness.10 Humble yourselves before {the} Lord, and he shall exalt you.11 Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against {his} brother, or judges his brother, speaks against {the} law and judges {the} law. But if thou judgest {the} law, thou art not doer of {the} law, but judge.12 One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour?13 Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,14 ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ({for} what {is} your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)15 instead of your saying, If the Lord should {so} will and we should live, we will also do this or that.16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.17 To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.

1 Waarvandaan kom oorloë en vegterye onder julle? Kom hulle nie hiervandaan, van julle welluste wat in julle lede stryd voer nie?2 Julle begeer en julle het nie, julle pleeg moord en is naywerig en julle kan niks verkry nie. Julle veg en maak oorlog, en julle het nie, omdat julle nie bid nie.3 Julle bid en julle ontvang nie, omdat julle verkeerd bid, om dit in julle welluste deur te bring.4 Egbrekers en egbreeksters, weet julle nie dat die vriendskap van die wêreld vyandskap teen God is nie? Wie dan 'n vriend van die wêreld wil wees, word 'n vyand van God.5 Of meen julle dat die Skrif tevergeefs sê: Met jaloersheid begeer die Gees wat in ons woon?6 Maar Hy gee groter genade; daarom sê Hy: God weerstaan die hoogmoediges, maar aan die nederiges gee Hy genade.7 Onderwerp julle dan aan God; weerstaan die duiwel, en hy sal van julle wegvlug.8 Nader tot God, en Hy sal tot julle nader. Reinig die hande, julle sondaars, en suiwer die harte, julle dubbelhartiges!9 Weeklaag, treur en ween. Laat julle gelag in treurigheid verander word en julle blydskap in bedruktheid.10 Verneder julle voor die Here, en Hy sal julle verhoog.11 Broeders, moenie van mekaar kwaad spreek nie. Di, wat kwaad spreek van sy broeder en sy broeder oordeel, spreek kwaad van die wet en oordeel die wet; en as jy die wet oordeel, is jy nie 'n dader van die wet nie, maar 'n regter.12 Een is die Wetgewer, Hy wat mag het om te red en te verderf. Maar jy, wie is jy wat 'n ander oordeel?13 Kom nou, julle wat sê: Vandag of môre sal ons na die en die stad gaan en daar een jaar deurbring en handel drywe en wins maak --14 julle wat nie eens weet wat môre sal gebeur nie. Want hoedanig is julle lewe? Dit is tog maar 'n damp wat vir 'n kort tydjie verskyn en daarna verdwyn.15 In plaas dat julle sê: As die Here wil en ons lewe, dan sal ons dit of dat doen.16 Maar nou roem julle in jul grootpratery. Al sulke roem is verkeerd.17 Wie dan weet om goed te doen en dit nie doen nie, vir hom is dit sonde.

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