1من اين الحروب والخصومات بينكم أليست من هنا من لذّاتكم المحاربة في اعضائكم.
1Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, -- from your pleasures, which war in your members?
2تشتهون ولستم تمتلكون. تقتلون وتحسدون ولستم تقدرون ان تنالوا. تخاصمون وتحاربون ولستم تمتلكون لانكم لا تطلبون.
2Ye 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.
3تطلبون ولستم تأخذون لانكم تطلبون رديّا لكي تنفقوا في لذّاتكم
3Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures.
4ايها الزناة والزواني أما تعلمون ان محبة العالم عداوة للّه. فمن اراد ان يكون محبا للعالم فقد صار عدوا للّه.
4Adulteresses, 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.
5ام تظنون ان الكتاب يقول باطلا. الروح الذي حل فينا يشتاق الى الحسد.
5Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?
6ولكنه يعطي نعمة اعظم. لذلك يقول يقاوم الله المستكبرين واما المتواضعون فيعطيهم نعمة.
6But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.
7فاخضعوا للّه. قاوموا ابليس فيهرب منكم.
7Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8اقتربوا الى الله فيقترب اليكم. نقوا ايديكم ايها الخطاة وطهروا قلوبكم يا ذوي الرأيين.
8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.
9اكتئبوا ونوحوا وابكوا. ليتحول ضحككم الى نوح وفرحكم الى غم.
9Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
10اتضعوا قدام الرب فيرفعكم
10Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you.
11لا يذم بعضكم بعضا ايها الاخوة. الذي يذم اخاه ويدين اخاه يذم الناموس ويدين الناموس. وان كنت تدين الناموس فلست عاملا بالناموس بل ديانا له.
11Speak 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.
12واحد هو واضع الناموس القادر ان يخلّص ويهلك. فمن انت يا من تدين غيرك
12One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour?
13هلم الآن ايها القائلون نذهب اليوم او غدا الى هذه المدينة او تلك وهناك نصرف سنة واحدة ونتجر ونربح.
13Go 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,
14انتم الذين لا تعرفون امر الغد. لانه ما هي حياتكم. انها بخار يظهر قليلا ثم يضمحل.
14ye 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,)
15عوض ان تقولوا ان شاء الرب وعشنا نفعل هذا او ذاك.
15instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that.
16واما الآن فانكم تفتخرون في تعظمكم. كل افتخار مثل هذا رديء.
16But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
17فمن يعرف ان يعمل حسنا ولا يعمل فذلك خطية له
17To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.