1 Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come
they not hence? even of your note carnal appetites making
war in your note bodies?
2 Ye desire, and ye have not: ye
note are envious, and jealous, and cannot obtain: ye fight
and note contend; but ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye
ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye
may spend it in your pleasures.
4 Ye adulterers and
adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the
world is enmity to God? whosoever therefore will be
a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5 Do
ye think the scripture speaks in vain? or does the Spirit
that dwelleth in us, note excite to envy?
6 noteNo, He giveth
more grace: wherefore note it is said, God resisteth the
proud, but sheweth favor to the humble.
7 Submit yourselves
therefore to God: resist the devil, and he will
flee from you.
8 Draw near to God, and He will draw
near to you: cleanse your hands, O sinners, and purify
your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be grieved, and mourn,
and weep: let your mirth be turned into mourning,
and your joy to sadness.
10 Be humbled before the Lord,
and He will exalt you.
11 Speak not against one another, my brethren; he that
speaketh against his brother, and note judgeth his brother,
speaketh against the law, and note judgeth the law; but
if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law,
but a judge.
12 Now there is but one lawgiver, who is
able to save and to destroy: who art thou then that
judgest another?
13 Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we
will go to such a city, and spend a year there, and trade
-- --
and get gain;
14 (though ye know not what will be on the
morrow; for what is your life? note a note vapor, which
appeareth for a little while, and then vanisheth away:)
note whereas ye ought to say,
15 If the Lord will, and we
note should live, and do this or that:
16 but note ye glory in
your note presumption: all such glorying is wicked.
17 To
him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doth it not,
to him it is sin.
Worsley [1770], THE NEW TESTAMENT OR NEW COVENANT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated from the Greek ACCORDING TO The Present Idiom of the English Tongue. With NOTES and REFERENCES interspersed, as occasion required, to confirm and illustrate the more literal or various Renderings given at the bottom of each page; by which even they, who do not understand the Original, may often judge for themselves of the justness and propriety of the Translation. By the late Mr. JOHN WORSLEY, of Hertford (Printed by R. Hett, LONDON) [word count] [B18100].
