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| 1What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? | 1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? |
| 2You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. | 2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. |
| 3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. | 3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. |
| 4You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. | 4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. |
| 5Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? | 5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? |
| 6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” | 6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. |
| 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. | 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. |
| 8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. | 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. |
| 9Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. | 9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. |
| 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. | 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. |
| 11Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. | 11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. |
| 12There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? | 12There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? |
| 13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— | 13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: |
| 14yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. | 14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. |
| 15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” | 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. |
| 16As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. | 16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. |
| 17So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. | 17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. |
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