Yakobus 4:1-3

Passions and Pride

4:1 Where do the conflicts and where ¹  do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, ²  from your passions that battle inside you? ³  4:2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask; 4:3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

Yakobus 4:11-12

4:11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. ⁴  He who speaks against a fellow believer ⁵  or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. ⁶  4:12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge – the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor? ⁷ 

Yakobus 4:16-17

4:16 But as it is, ⁸  you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 4:17 So whoever knows what is good to do ⁹  and does not do it is guilty of sin. ¹⁰ 

[4:1]  ¹ tn The word “where” is repeated in Greek for emphasis.

[4:1]  ² tn Grk “from here.”

[4:1]  ³ tn Grk “in your members [i.e., parts of the body].”

[4:11]  ⁴ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[4:11]  ⁵ tn See note on the word “believer” in 1:9.

[4:11]  ⁶ tn Grk “a judge.”

[4:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “who judges your neighbor.”

[4:16]  ⁸ tn Grk “but now.”

[4:17]  ⁹ tn Or “knows how to do what is good.”

[4:17]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “to him it is sin.”