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4 What is the source of the wars and fights among you? Do they not originate from your fleshly desires that carry on a conflict within you?*+2 You desire, and yet you do not have. You go on murdering and coveting, and yet you are not able to obtain. You go on fighting and waging war.+ You do not have because of your not asking.3 When you do ask, you do not receive because you are asking for a wrong purpose, so that you may spend it on your fleshly desires.4 Adulteresses,* do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend of the world is making himself an enemy of God.+5 Or do you think that for no reason the scripture says: “The spirit that has taken up residence within us keeps enviously longing”?+6 However, the undeserved kindness that He gives is greater. So it says: “God opposes the haughty ones,+ but he gives undeserved kindness to the humble ones.”+7 Therefore, subject yourselves to God;+ but oppose the Devil,+ and he will flee from you.+8 Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you.+ Cleanse your hands, you sinners,+ and purify your hearts,+ you indecisive ones.9 Give way to misery and mourn and weep.+ Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into despair.10 Humble yourselves in the eyes of Jehovah,*+ and he will exalt you.+11 Stop speaking against one another, brothers.+ Whoever speaks against a brother or judges his brother speaks against law and judges law. Now if you judge law, you are not a doer of law but a judge.12 There is only one who is Lawgiver and Judge,+ the one who is able to save and to destroy.+ But you, who are you to be judging your neighbor?+13 Come, now, you who say: “Today or tomorrow we will travel to this city and will spend a year there, and we will do business and make some profit,”+14 whereas you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.+ For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then disappears.+15 Instead, you should say: “If Jehovah* wills,+ we will live and do this or that.”16 But now you take pride in your arrogant boasting. All such boasting is wicked.17 Therefore, if someone knows how to do what is right and yet does not do it, it is a sin for him.+
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4 Odakle ratovi i odakle borbe među vama? Zar ne od vaših sebičnih želja+ koje se sukobljavaju u udovima vašim?+2 Želite, a nemate. Ubijate+ i žudite,+ a ne možete dobiti. Borite se+ i ratujete. Nemate jer ne tražite od Boga.3 Tražite, a ne primate, jer tražite sa zlom namjerom,+ da to potrošite na svoje sebične želje.+4 Preljubnici,+ ne znate li da je prijateljstvo sa svijetom neprijateljstvo s Bogom?+ Tko god, dakle, želi biti prijatelj+ svijetu postaje neprijatelj Bogu.+5 Mislite li da Pismo uzalud kaže: “Duh zavisti koji nosimo u sebi stalno za nečim žudi”?+6 No nezaslužena dobrota koju Bog ukazuje veća je od naše zavisti.+ Zato Pismo kaže: “Bog se suprotstavlja oholima,+ a nezasluženu dobrotu ukazuje poniznima.”+7 Podložite se,+ dakle, Bogu, a suprotstavite se Đavlu,+ i pobjeći će od vas!+8 Približite se Bogu, i on će se približiti vama!+ Očistite ruke, grešnici,+ i pročistite srca,+ neodlučni!+9 Jadikujte i tugujte i plačite!+ Smijeh vaš neka se pretvori u tugu i radost vaša u žalost!+10 Ponizite se pred Jehovom,+ i on će vas uzvisiti!+11 Ne govorite više jedni protiv drugih, braćo!+ Tko govori protiv brata ili osuđuje+ brata, govori protiv zakona i osuđuje zakon. A ako osuđuješ zakon, nisi vršitelj zakona, nego sudac.+12 No jedan je zakonodavac i sudac+ — onaj koji može spasiti i pogubiti.+ A tko si ti da osuđuješ bližnjega svojeg?+13 Slušajte sad, vi koji kažete: “Danas ili sutra otputovat ćemo u taj i taj grad i provesti ondje godinu dana, trgovati i zaraditi”,+14 a ne znate kakav će vaš život biti sutra.+ Jer ste izmaglica koja se nakratko javlja i zatim nestaje.+15 Trebali biste reći: “Ako bude Jehovina volja,+ živjet ćemo i učiniti ovo ili ono.”+16 A sada se razmećete oholim riječima.+ Svako je takvo razmetanje zlo.17 Dakle, ako tko zna činiti što je ispravno, a ne čini,+ to mu je grijeh.+