¹Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

¹Odakle ratovi, odakle borbe među vama? Zar ne odavde: od pohota što vojuju u udovima vašim?

²You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

²Žudite, a nemate; ubijate i hlepite, a ne možete postići; borite se i ratujete. Nemate jer ne ištete.

³You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

³Ištete, a ne primate jer rđavo ištete: da u pohotama svojim potratite.

⁴You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

⁴Preljubnici! Ne znate li da je prijateljstvo sa svijetom neprijateljstvo prema Bogu? Tko god dakle hoće da bude prijatelj svijeta, promeće se u neprijatelja Božjega.

⁵Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

⁵Ili mislite da Pismo uzalud veli: Ljubomorno čezne za duhom što ga nastani u nama?

⁶But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Proverbs 3:34

⁶A daje on i veću milost. Zato govori: Bog se oholima protivi, a poniznima daje milost.

⁷Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

⁷Podložite se dakle Bogu! Oduprite se đavlu i pobjeći će od vas!

⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

⁸Približite se Bogu i on će se približiti vama! Očistite ruke, grešnici! Očistite srca, dvoličnjaci!

⁹Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

⁹Zakukajte, protužite, proplačite! Smijeh vaš nek se u plač obrati i radost u žalost!

¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

¹⁰Ponizite se pred Gospodinom i on će vas uzvisiti!

¹¹Don’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.

¹¹Ne ogovarajte, braćo, jedni druge! Tko ogovara ili sudi brata svoga, ogovara i sudi Zakon. A sudiš li Zakon, nisi vršitelj nego sudac Zakona.

¹²Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

¹²Jedan je Zakonodavac i Sudac: Onaj koji može spasiti i pogubiti. A tko si ti da sudiš bližnjega?

¹³Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

¹³De sada, vi što govorite: "Danas ili sutra otići ćemo u taj i taj grad, provesti ondje godinu, trgovati i zaraditi",

¹⁴Whereas 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.

¹⁴a ne znate što će sutra biti. Ta što je vaš život? Dašak ste što se načas pojavi i zatim nestane!

¹⁵For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

¹⁵Umjesto da govorite: "Htjedne li Gospodin, živjet ćemo i učiniti ovo ili ono",

¹⁶But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

¹⁶vi se razmećete svojim hvastanjima! Svako je takvo hvastanje opako.

¹⁷To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

¹⁷Znati dakle dobro činiti, a ne činiti - grijeh je.