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 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。