Lettera di Giacomo 4

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Unde bella et unde lites in vobis? Nonne hinc, ex concupi scentiisvestris, quae militant in membris vestris?	1 Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?
2 Concupiscitis et non habetis;occiditis et zelatis et non potestis adipisci; litigatis et belligeratis. Nonhabetis, propter quod non postulatis;	2 You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.
3 petitis et non accipitis, eo quod malepetitis, ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis.	3 You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
4 Adulteri, nescitis quiaamicitia huius mundi inimica est Dei? Quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse saeculi huius, inimicus Dei constituitur.	4 You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.
5 Aut putatis quia inaniter Scriptura dicat: “ Ad invidiam concupiscit Spiritus,qui inhabitat in nobis? ”.	5 Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: “The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?”
6 Maiorem autem dat gratiam; propter quod dicit: “ Deus superbis resistit, humilibus autem dat gratiam ”.	6 But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: “God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”
7 Subicimini igitur Deo; resistite autem Diabolo, et fugiet a vobis.	7 Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Appropiate Deo, et appropinquabit vobis. Emundate manus, peccatores; etpurificate corda, duplices animo.	8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!
9 Miseri estote et lugete et plorate; risusvester in luctum convertatur, et gaudium in maerorem.	9 Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow.
10 Humiliamini inconspectu Domini, et exaltabit vos.	10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Nolite detrahere alterutrum, fratres; qui detrahit fratri, aut qui iudicatfratrem suum, detrahit legi et iudicat legem; si autem iudicas legem, non esfactor legis sed iudex.	11 Brothers, do not choose to slander one another. Whoever slanders his brother, or whoever judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 Unus est legislator et iudex, qui potest salvare etperdere; tu autem quis es, qui iudicas proximum?	12 There is one lawgiver and one judge. He is able to destroy, and he is able to set free.
13 Age nunc, qui dicitis: “ Hodie aut crastino ibimus in illam civitatem etfaciemus quidem ibi annum et mercabimur et lucrum faciemus ”;	13 But who are you to judge your neighbor? Consider this, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into that city, and certainly we will spend a year there, and we will do business, and we will make our profit,”
14 quiignoratis, quae erit in crastinum vita vestra! Vapor enim estis ad modicumparens, deinceps exterminatur;	14 consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.
15 pro eo ut dicatis: “ Si Dominus voluerit, etvivemus et faciemus hoc aut illud ”.	15 For what is your life? It is a mist that appears for a brief time, and afterwards will vanish away. So what you ought to say is: “If the Lord wills,” or, “If we live,” we will do this or that.
16 Nunc autem gloriamini in superbiisvestris; omnis gloriatio talis maligna est.	16 But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked.
17 Scienti igitur bonum facere etnon facienti, peccatum est illi!	17 Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.