February 25, 2014

4:1	Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?
4:2	You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.
4:3	You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
4:4	You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? לָכֵן, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.
4:5	Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: “The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?”
4:6	But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: “God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”
4:7	לָכֵן, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
4:8	Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!
4:9	Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow.
4:10	Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

9:30	Then he taught his disciples, וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם, “For the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and having been killed, on the third day he will rise again.”
9:31	But they did not understand the word. And they were afraid to question him.
9:32	וילכו לכפר נחום. וכשהיו בבית, הוא שאל אותם, "על מה דיברת בדרך?”
9:33	אבל הם שתקו. שכן, בדרך, הם התווכחו ביניהם מי מהם גדול יותר.
9:34	ומתיישב, הוא קרא לשנים-עשר, וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם, "אם מישהו רוצה להיות ראשון, הוא יהיה האחרון מכולם והשר של כולם".
9:35	ולוקח ילד, הוא העמיד אותו בקרבם. וכאשר חיבק אותו, אמר להם:
9:36	"מי שמקבל ילד אחד כזה בשמי, מקבל אותי. ומי שמקבל אותי, מקבל לא אותי, אלא מי ששלח אותי."
9:37	ג'ון השיב לו באומרו, "מוֹרֶה, ראינו מישהו מוציא שדים בשמך; הוא לא עוקב אחרינו, ולכן אסרו עליו".

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