1 ¿De dónde las contiendas y pleytos en vosotros? ¿No son de vuestras concupiscencias, que combaten en vuestros miembros? 2 Codiciáis, y no tenéis: matáis y envidiáis, y no conseguís vuestros deseos: litigáis y hacéis guerra, y no alcanzais, porque no demandáis. 3 Pedis, y no recibís: y esto es porque pedís mal, para satisfacer vuestras pasiones. 4 ¿Adúlteros, no sabéis que la amistad de éste mundo es enemiga de Dios? Qualquiera, pues, que quisiere ser amigo de éste siglo, se constituye enemigo de Dios. 5 pensais, que dice en vano la Escritura: El espíritu, que mora en vosotros, codicia con zelos? 6 Pero dá mayor gracia. Por esto dice: Dios resiste á los soberbios, y á los humildes dá gracia. 7 Someteos pues á Dios, y resistid al diablo, y huirá de vosotros. 8 Acercaos á Dios, y él se acercará á vosotros. Pecadores: limpiad las manos: y los que sois de ánimo doble, purificad los corazones. 9 Afligíos, y lamentad, y llorad: vuestra risa se convierta en llanto, y vuestro gozo en tristeza. 10 Humillaos en la presencia del Señor, y él os ensalzará. 11 No digais mal los unos de los otros, hermanos. El que dice mal de su hermano, ó que juzga á su hermano, dice mal de la Ley y juzga la Ley. Y si juzgas la Ley, no eres hacedor de la Ley, sino Juez. 12 Uno es el dador, y el Juez de la Ley, que puede salvar, y perder. 13 ¿Mas tú quién eres, que juzgas á tu próximo? Ea, ahora vosotros los que decís: Hoy ó mañana iremos á aquella ciudad, y pasaremos allí un año, y mercaremos, y ganaremos; 14 Y no sabéis lo que será en el día de mañana. 15 Porque ¿qué cosa es vuestra vida? es un vapor, que aparece por un poco, y luego desaparecerá; en lugar de decir: Si el Señor quisiere. Y: Si viviéremos, haremos ésto ó aquello. 16 Mas ahora os jactáis en vuestras soberbias. Toda jactancia semejante, es maligna. 17 Aquel pues, que sabe hacer lo bueno, y no lo hace, tiene pecado.
James · Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
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- 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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"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)