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Sabato, 27 aprile 2024 - Santa Zita ( Letture di oggi)

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VULGATAKING JAMES BIBLE
1 Unde bella et lites in vobis ? nonne hinc : ex concupiscentiis vestris, quæ militant in membris vestris ?1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 concupiscitis, et non habetis : occiditis, et zelatis : et non potestis adipisci : litigatis, et belligeratis, et non habetis, propter quod non postulatis.2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Petitis, et non accipitis : eo quod male petatis : ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis.3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4 Adulteri, nescitis quia amicitia hujus mundi inimica est Dei ? quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse sæculi hujus, inimicus Dei constituitur.4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 An putatis quia inaniter Scriptura dicat : Ad invidiam concupiscit spiritus qui habitat in vobis ?5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 majorem autem dat gratiam. Propter quod dicit : Deus superbis resistit, humilibus autem dat gratiam.6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Subditi ergo estote Deo, resistite autem diabolo, et fugiet a vobis.7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Appropinquate Deo, et appropinquabit vobis. Emundate manus, peccatores : et purificate corda, duplices animo.8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Miseri estote, et lugete, et plorate : risus vester in luctum convertatur, et gaudium in mœrorem.9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humiliamini in conspectu Domini, et exaltabit vos.10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
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.11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 Unus est legislator et judex, qui potest perdere et liberare.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
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 :13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14 qui ignoratis quid erit in crastino.14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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.15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16 Nunc autem exsultatis in superbiis vestris. Omnis exsultatio talis, maligna est.16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17 Scienti igitur bonum facere, et non facienti, peccatum est illi.17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.