You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
4:5
ወሚመይመስለክሙኑዘሐሰተይብልመጽሐፍከመተቃንኦያፈቅርመንፈስዘየኀድርላዕሌክሙ።
你們想經上所說是徒然的嗎?上帝所賜、住在我們裏面的靈,是戀愛至於嫉妒嗎?
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
4:14
ምንትኑመሕይወትክሙአኮኑከመጢስአንትሙዘለምዕርያስተርኢወእምድኅሬሁይማስን።
其實明天如何,你們還不知道。你們的生命是甚麼呢?你們原來是一片雲霧,出現少時就不見了。
Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
4:15
ዘእምትቤሉእመሠምረእግዚአብሔርወሐየውነንገብርዘንተአውዝክተ።
你們只當說:「主若願意,我們就可以活着,也可以做這事,或做那事。」
For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
4:16
ወይእዜሰትትሜክሑበምግባሪክሙወኵላትምክሕትእንተከመዝእኪትይእቲ።
現今你們竟以張狂誇口;凡這樣誇口都是惡的。
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
4:17
ወዘየአምርገቢሮታለሠናይትወኢይገብራኀጢአተትከውኖ።
人若知道行善,卻不去行,這就是他的罪了。
To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.