| English Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? | 1What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage 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. | 2You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. |
| 3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. | 3You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. |
| 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. | 4You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an 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”? | 5Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us"? |
| 6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” | 6But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, "GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE." |
| 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. | 7Submit 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 near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. |
| 9Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. | 9Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. |
| 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. | 10Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. |
| 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. | 11Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or 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 of it. |
| 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 only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor? |
| 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”— | 13Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." |
| 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. | 14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. |
| 15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” | 15Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that." |
| 16As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. | 16But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. |
| 17So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. | 17Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin. |
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