| Christian Standard Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don't they come from your passions that wage war within you? | 1Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they? |
| 2You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask. | 2You want something but do not get it, so you commit murder. You covet something but cannot obtain it, so you quarrel and fight. You do not get things because you do not ask for them! |
| 3You ask and don't receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. | 3You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason—for your own pleasure. |
| 4You adulterous people! Don't you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God. | 4You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God. |
| 5Or do you think it's without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely? | 5Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God caused to live in us jealously yearns for us? |
| 6But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. | 6But he gives all the more grace. And so he says, "God opposes the arrogant but gives grace to the humble." |
| 7Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. | 7Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will run away from you. |
| 8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. | 8Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. |
| 9Be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. | 9Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom. |
| 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. | 10Humble yourselves in the Lord's presence, and he will exalt you. |
| 11Don't criticize one another, brothers and sisters. Anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. | 11Do not criticize each other, brothers. Whoever makes it his habit to criticize his brother or to judge his brother is judging the Law and condemning the Law. But if you condemn the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but its judge. |
| 12There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? | 12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge—the one who can save and destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor? |
| 13Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit." | 13Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money." |
| 14Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring--what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes. | 14You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. |
| 15Instead, you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." | 15Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live—and do this or that." |
| 16But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. | 16But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. |
| 17So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it. | 17Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin. |
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