James · God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
James 4 God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
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1 ¿De dónde [vienen] las luchas y contiendas entre ustedes? ¿No [vienen] de sus pasiones, las cuales combaten como soldados en sus miembros?
1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
2 Codician y no tienen. Asesinan y arden de envidia. Nada pueden obtener. Combaten y luchan. Pero no tienen porque no piden.
2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
3 Piden y no reciben, porque piden mal, para gastar en sus placeres.
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 Adúlteros, ¿no saben que la amistad del mundo es enemistad contra Dios? Por tanto, cualquiera que determina ser amigo del mundo, se convierte en enemigo de Dios.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 ¿O piensan que la Escritura dice en vano: El espíritu que puso en nosotros nos anhela con celo?
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
6 Pero Él da mayor gracia. Por tanto dice: Dios se opone a [los ]soberbios, y da gracia a [los ]humildes.
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Entonces sométanse a Dios. Estén firmes contra el diablo y huirá de ustedes.
7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Acérquense a Dios y Él se acercará a ustedes. Pecadores, limpien sus manos, y los que vacilan purifiquen [sus] corazones.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Aflíjanse, lamenten y lloren. Su risa se convierta en llanto y su gozo en tristeza.
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humíllense ante el Señor, y Él los exaltará.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Hermanos, no hablen mal unos de otros. El que habla mal del hermano o que juzga a su hermano, habla mal de [la] Ley y juzga a [la] Ley. Si juzgas [la] Ley, ya no eres cumplidor de [la] Ley, sino juez.
11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
12 Uno solo es el Legislador y Juez, Quien puede salvar y condenar. Pero tú, que juzgas al prójimo, ¿quién eres?
12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
13 Escuchen ahora los que dicen: Hoy o mañana iremos a tal y tal ciudad, estaremos allá un año, haremos negocios y ganaremos.
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
14 Lo que no saben es como será su vida mañana. Ciertamente es como una neblina que aparece por poco tiempo, y luego se desvanece.
14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
15 Al contrario, ustedes [deben] decir: Si el Señor quiere, viviremos, y haremos esto o aquello.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
16 Pero ahora se enaltecen en sus arrogancias. Todo enaltecimiento de esa clase es malo.
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
17 Por tanto, al que sabe hacer lo bueno y no [lo] hace, le es pecado.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Peter 2:11; Galatians 5:17; Romans 7:23; James 1:14; Romans 8:7
- 2 John 16:24; Matthew 7:7–8; James 1:5; Luke 11:9–13; John 4:10
- 3 1 John 5:14; 1 John 3:22; James 1:6–7; James 4:1; Proverbs 15:8
- 4 1 John 2:15–16; Romans 8:7; Matthew 6:24; John 15:19; Galatians 1:10
- 5 2 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Corinthians 6:19; Numbers 11:29; Titus 3:3; Psalm 37:1
- 6 Matthew 23:12; Proverbs 3:34; 1 Peter 5:5; Psalm 138:6; Proverbs 18:12
- 7 1 Peter 5:8–9; Ephesians 4:27; Ephesians 6:11–12; 1 Peter 5:6; Luke 4:2–13
- 8 Psalm 145:18; Hebrews 10:22; Malachi 3:7; Zechariah 1:3; Isaiah 55:6–7
- 9 Matthew 5:4; 2 Corinthians 7:10–11; Luke 6:25; Proverbs 14:13; James 5:1–2
- 10 Psalm 147:6; Matthew 23:12; 1 Peter 5:6; Luke 14:11; James 4:6–7
- 11 1 Peter 2:1; James 5:9; Romans 2:1; Luke 6:37; Psalm 140:11
- 12 Romans 14:4; Romans 2:1; Matthew 10:28; Isaiah 33:22; James 5:9
- 13 Proverbs 27:1; Luke 12:17–20; Genesis 11:3–4; Ecclesiastes 2:1; Isaiah 24:2
- 14 1 Peter 1:24; Psalm 39:5; 1 John 2:17; Psalm 102:3; Job 7:6–7
- 15 Proverbs 19:21; Hebrews 6:3; Lamentations 3:37; Acts 18:21; Romans 1:10
- 16 Proverbs 27:1; 1 Corinthians 5:6; Psalm 52:7; Proverbs 25:14; Isaiah 47:10
- 17 John 9:41; John 13:17; John 15:22; 2 Peter 2:21; Luke 12:47–48
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
"For God," saith [the Scripture], "resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble." Let us cleave, then, to those to whom grace has been given by God.
And man, being a part of Thy creation, desires to praise Thee, man, who bears about with him his mortality, the witness of his sin, even the witness that Thou "resistest the proud," --yet man, this part of Thy creation, desires to praise Thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
"God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." Again, I will ask you another thing also.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… man, very skilful in medicine, and much renowned therein, who had with his own proconsular hand put the Agonistic garland upon my distempered head, not, though, as a physician; for this disease Thou alone healest, who resistest the proud, and givest grace to the humble. But didst Thou fail me even by that old man, or forbear from healing my …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
But I pressed towards Thee, and was repelled by Thee that I might taste of death, for Thou "resistest the proud." But what prouder than for me, with a marvellous madness, to assert myself to be that by nature which Thou art?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)