1 Where do the fights and quarrels you're having come from? Aren't they due to the sensual passions that are in conflict within you? 2 You burn with desire, but don't get what you want. You kill for what you lust after, but don't get what you're looking for. You argue and you fight, but you don't get anything, because you don't pray for it. 3 You pray, but don't receive anything, because you ask with a wrong motive, wanting to spend what you'd receive on your selfish pleasures. 4 You adulterous people! Don't you realize that friendship with the world is hatred towards God? Those who want to be friends of the world make themselves enemies of God. 5 Do you think Scripture doesn't mean what it says: that the spirit that he put in us is very jealous? 6 But God gives us even more grace, as Scripture says: “God is against those who are arrogant, but gives grace to those who are humble.” 7 So place yourself under God's direction. Confront the devil, and he will run away from you. 8 Come close to God and he will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Purify your way of thinking, you people with divided loyalties. 9 Show some remorse, cry and weep! Turn your laughter into mourning, and your joy to sadness. 10 Be humble before the Lord and he will lift you up. 11 Friends, don't speak badly of one another. Anyone who criticizes a fellow-believer and condemns them, criticizes and condemns the law. If you condemn the law you're not someone who keeps the law, because you're sitting in judgment of it. 12 There's only one lawgiver and judge—the one who can either save or destroy you—so who are you to judge your neighbor? 13 Come on now!—you people who say, “Either today or tomorrow we'll go to such-and-such a city, spend a year in business there, and make a profit.” 14 You have no idea what will happen tomorrow! What's your life like? It's just a mist that appears for a little while, and then is gone. 15 What you should say is, “If it's the Lord's will, we'll live like this and plan to do that.” 16 But right now you're caught up in your vain ideas. All this boasting is evil. 17 For it is a sin if you know to do what's right but don't do it.
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Referencias cruzadas (17)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Pedro 2:11; Gálatas 5:17; Romanos 7:23; Santiago 1:14; Romanos 8:7
- 2 Juan 16:24; Mateo 7:7–8; Santiago 1:5; Lucas 11:9–13; Juan 4:10
- 3 1 Juan 5:14; 1 Juan 3:22; Santiago 1:6–7; Santiago 4:1; Proverbios 15:8
- 4 1 Juan 2:15–16; Romanos 8:7; Mateo 6:24; Juan 15:19; Gálatas 1:10
- 5 2 Corintios 6:16; 1 Corintios 6:19; Números 11:29; Tito 3:3; Salmo 37:1
- 6 Mateo 23:12; Proverbios 3:34; 1 Pedro 5:5; Salmo 138:6; Proverbios 18:12
- 7 1 Pedro 5:8–9; Efesios 4:27; Efesios 6:11–12; 1 Pedro 5:6; Lucas 4:2–13
- 8 Salmo 145:18; Hebreos 10:22; Malaquías 3:7; Zacarías 1:3; Isaías 55:6–7
- 9 Mateo 5:4; 2 Corintios 7:10–11; Lucas 6:25; Proverbios 14:13; Santiago 5:1–2
- 10 Salmo 147:6; Mateo 23:12; 1 Pedro 5:6; Lucas 14:11; Santiago 4:6–7
- 11 1 Pedro 2:1; Santiago 5:9; Romanos 2:1; Lucas 6:37; Salmo 140:11
- 12 Romanos 14:4; Romanos 2:1; Mateo 10:28; Isaías 33:22; Santiago 5:9
- 13 Proverbios 27:1; Lucas 12:17–20; Génesis 11:3–4; Eclesiastés 2:1; Isaías 24:2
- 14 1 Pedro 1:24; Salmo 39:5; 1 Juan 2:17; Salmo 102:3; Job 7:6–7
- 15 Proverbios 19:21; Hebreos 6:3; Lamentaciones 3:37; Hechos 18:21; Romanos 1:10
- 16 Proverbios 27:1; 1 Corintios 5:6; Salmo 52:7; Proverbios 25:14; Isaías 47:10
- 17 Juan 9:41; Juan 13:17; Juan 15:22; 2 Pedro 2:21; Lucas 12:47–48
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Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
"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.
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · 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?
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)