| New King James Version | International Standard Version |
| 1Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? | 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 lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet 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 do not receive, because you ask amiss, 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. |
| 4Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an 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 that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”? | 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 more 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, you 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. |
| 9Lament 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 in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. | 10Humble yourselves in the Lord's presence, and he will exalt you. |
| 11Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of 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 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, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another? | 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 go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, 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." |
| 14whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. | 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 ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall 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 now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. | 16But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. |
| 17Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. | 17Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin. |
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