Submit yourselves to God
1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4You adulterous people,4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1. don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us4:5 Or that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely; or that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously? 6But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
‘God opposes the proud
but shows favour to the humble.’4:6 Prov. 3:34
7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister4:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family. or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you – who are you to judge your neighbour?
Boasting about tomorrow
13Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ 14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15Instead, you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.’ 16As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
Cai pachata cʼuyajca Diosta pʼiñajmi tucun
1¿Ima nishpataj cancunapurallataj macanacunguichij, caita chaita rimanacunguichij? Cancunapaj shungullapitaj millai munaicuna caita chaita yuyachicujpimari, chashnaca ruranguichij. 2Imata munashpapish, mana charinguichijchu. Huañuchishpapish, shujtajcunapajta munashpapish, mana imata japi tucunguichijchu. Quichushataj nishpa macanacushpapish, Diosta mana mañashpamari, cancuna munashcataca manataj japinguichij. 3Mañashpapish millai shunguhuanmi mañanguichij. Aicha ima munashcata rurashpa tucuchingapajlla, mañashcamantami, mana japinguichij.
4¡Cancunaca huainayashpamari causanguichij! Cai pachapajta munashpaca, Taita Diosta pʼiñacushcataca, ¿manachu yachanguichij? Maijanpish cai pachapajta munajca, Taita Diosta pʼiñajmari tucun. 5¿Yangallachu Dios Quillcachishcapica: “Ñucanchijpi causachun Dios churashca Espirituca, ñucanchijtaca Paipajlla cachunmi munan” nishca canata yuyanguichij? 6Ashtahuanpish Diosca, ñucanchij mana cʼuyaipaj cajpipish cʼuyaj cashcatamari, ashtahuan ricuchisha nishca. Chaimantami:
«Taita Diosca jatun tucushcacunataca pʼiñanmi, mana jatun tucushcacunatami jatunta cʼuyan» nishca.
Llaquicuna japijpipish alli shunguhuan apailla
7Chashna cajpica Taita Diosllata caźuichij, diablotaca cʼariyaichijlla. Cancuna cʼariyajpica, paica cancunamanta miticungallami. 8Taita Diospajman cʼuchuyaichij, Paipish cancunapajman cʼuchuyamungallami. Juchahuan mapayashcacuna, cancunapaj maquita maillaichij. Ishqui yuyai purijcuna, cancunapaj shungumanta mapa yuyaita anchuchichij. 9Llaquirichij, ‘¡Ai!’ nichij, caparirishpa huacaichij. Asinapaj randica, huacaichij. Cushicunapaj randica, llaquirichij. 10Apunchij Jesuspaj ñaupajpi, tucui shunguhuan cumurichij. Paimi cancunataca jatunyachinga. 11Huauquicuna, ama caishuj chaishuj yanganchinacuichijchu. Maijanpish shuj crijta, ‘Chai huauquica mana allichu’ nishpa juchachishpa rimajca, Mandashcata mana caźujmi, Mandashcata juchachishpa rimajmi. Mandashcata can juchachishpa rimashpaca, Mandashcata pajtachijca mana canguichu, ashtahuanpish Mandashcata juchachijmari tucungui.
12Shujlla Diosmi Mandashcata curca. Paillatajmi quishpichi tucun, mana cashpaca chingachi tucun. Shina cajpica canca, ¿ima cashpataj caishujtaca juchachinguiari?
‘Caita chaita rurashami’ nishpa jatun tucunaca mana allichu
13«Cunan cashpa, caya cashpapish, cai llajtaman chai llajtaman jacuchij. Huatata chaipi randishpa, cʼatushpa achca cullquita mirachimungapaj» nijcuna, uyahuaichij. 14¡Cancunaca, caya ima tucunataca mana yachanguichijchu! ¿Ñucanchij causaica imatagari? Ñucanchij causaica, pʼuyu ashacama ricurishcahuan, ñapish chingarij shinallami. 15Chashna ninapaj randica: «Mandaj Dios munajpica, caitapish chaitapish rurashunchari» ninami canguichij. 16Ashtahuanpish jatun tucushpamari, ‘Caitapish, chaitapish rurashunmi’ nishpa puringuichij. Jatun tucushpa chashna yuyanaca, manamari allichu. 17Maijanpish imatapish allita ruranata yachashca jahua mana rurajca, paillatajmi juchayuj tucun.
