James 4

NEW JERUSALEM	VULGATA
1 Where do these wars and battles between yourselves first start? Is it not precisely in the desiresfighting inside your own selves?	1 Unde bella et lites in vobis ? nonne hinc : ex concupiscentiis vestris, quæ militant in membris vestris ?
2 You want something and you lack it; so you kil . You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so youfight to get your way by force. It is because you do not pray that you do not receive;	2 concupiscitis, et non habetis : occiditis, et zelatis : et non potestis adipisci : litigatis, et belligeratis, et non habetis, propter quod non postulatis.
3 when you do pray and do not receive, it is because you prayed wrongly, wanting to indulge yourpassions.	3 Petitis, et non accipitis : eo quod male petatis : ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis.
4 Adulterers! Do you not realise that love for the world is hatred for God? Anyone who chooses the worldfor a friend is constituted an enemy of God.	4 Adulteri, nescitis quia amicitia hujus mundi inimica est Dei ? quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse sæculi hujus, inimicus Dei constituitur.
5 Can you not see the point of the saying in scripture, 'The longing of the spirit he sent to dwel in us is ajealous longing.'?	5 An putatis quia inaniter Scriptura dicat : Ad invidiam concupiscit spiritus qui habitat in vobis ?
6 But he has given us an even greater grace, as scripture says: God opposes the proud but he accordshis favour to the humble.	6 majorem autem dat gratiam. Propter quod dicit : Deus superbis resistit, humilibus autem dat gratiam.
7 Give in to God, then; resist the devil, and he wil run away from you.	7 Subditi ergo estote Deo, resistite autem diabolo, et fugiet a vobis.
8 The nearer you go to God, the nearer God wil come to you. Clean your hands, you sinners, and clearyour minds, you waverers.	8 Appropinquate Deo, et appropinquabit vobis. Emundate manus, peccatores : et purificate corda, duplices animo.
9 Appreciate your wretchedness, and weep for it in misery. Your laughter must be turned to grief, yourhappiness to gloom.	9 Miseri estote, et lugete, et plorate : risus vester in luctum convertatur, et gaudium in mœrorem.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and he wil lift you up.	10 Humiliamini in conspectu Domini, et exaltabit vos.
11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who slanders a brother, or condemns one, is speakingagainst the Law and condemning the Law. But if you condemn the Law, you have ceased to be subject to it andbecome a judge over it.	11 Nolite detrahere alterutrum fratres. Qui detrahit fratri, aut qui judicat fratrem suum, detrahit legi, et judicat legem. Si autem judicas legem, non es factor legis, sed judex.
12 There is only one lawgiver and he is the only judge and has the power to save or to destroy. Who areyou to give a verdict on your neighbour?	12 Unus est legislator et judex, qui potest perdere et liberare.
13 Wel now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow, we are off to this or that town; we are going to spend ayear there, trading, and make some money.'	13 Tu autem quis es, qui judicas proximum ? Ecce nunc qui dicitis : Hodie, aut crastino ibimus in illam civitatem, et faciemus ibi quidem annum, et mercabimur, et lucrum faciemus :
14 You never know what wil happen tomorrow: you are no more than a mist that appears for a little whileand then disappears.	14 qui ignoratis quid erit in crastino.
15 Instead of this, you should say, 'If it is the Lord's wil , we shal stil be alive to do this or that.'	15 Quæ est enim vita vestra ? vapor est ad modicum parens, et deinceps exterminabitur ; pro eo ut dicatis : Si Dominus voluerit. Et : Si vixerimus, faciemus hoc, aut illud.
16 But as it is, how boastful and loud -- mouthed you are! Boasting of this kind is always wrong.	16 Nunc autem exsultatis in superbiis vestris. Omnis exsultatio talis, maligna est.
17 Everyone who knows what is the right thing to do and does not do it commits a sin.	17 Scienti igitur bonum facere, et non facienti, peccatum est illi.