| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don't they come from the cravings that are at war within you? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You ask and don't receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Adulteresses! Don't you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world's friend becomes God's enemy. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Or do you think it's without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Don't criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14You don't even know what tomorrow will bring--what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Instead, you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn't do it. |
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