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| 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? | 1Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you? |
| 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! | 2You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask; |
| 3You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason—for your own pleasure. | 3you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions. |
| 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. | 4Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy. |
| 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? | 5Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"? |
| 6But he gives all the more grace. And so he says, "God opposes the arrogant but gives grace to the humble." | 6But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble." |
| 7Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will run away from you. | 7So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you. |
| 8Come close to God, and he will come close 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 make your hearts pure, you double-minded. |
| 9Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom. | 9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair. |
| 10Humble yourselves in the Lord's presence, and he will exalt you. | 10Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. |
| 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. | 11Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. |
| 12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge—the one who can save and destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor? | 12But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge--the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor? |
| 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." | 13Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit." |
| 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. | 14You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes. |
| 15Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live—and do this or that." | 15You ought to say instead, "If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that." |
| 16But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. | 16But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. |
| 17Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin. | 17So whoever knows what is good to do and does not do it is guilty of sin. |
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