4:1 ①What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? ②Is the source not your pleasures that wage war in ③your body’s parts?
▷ ①Lit From where wars and from where fightings ②Lit Are they not from here, from your ③Lit your parts
4:2 You lust and do not have, so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask ①with the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request ②on your pleasures.
▷ ①Lit wrongly ②Lit in
4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says to no purpose, “ ①He ②jealously desires the Spirit whom He has made to dwell in us”?
▷ ①Or The spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts with envy ②Lit desires to jealousy
4:6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.”
4:7 Submit therefore to God. But ①resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
▷ ①Or oppose
4:8 Come close to God and He will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you ①double-minded.
▷ ①I.e., chronic doubters
4:9 Be miserable, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
4:11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. The one who speaks against a brother or sister, or judges his brother or sister, 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 of it.
4:12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, ①judging your neighbor?
▷ ①Lit the one judging
4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
4:14 ①Yet you do not know ②what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away.
▷ ①Lit Who do not ②Or what will happen tomorrow. What kind of life is yours?
4:15 ①Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
▷ ①Lit Instead of your saying
4:16 But as it is, you boast in your ①arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
▷ ①Or pretensions
4:17 So for one who knows the ①right thing to do and does not do it, for him it is sin.
▷ ①Or good