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1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?

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 desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

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!

3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get 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.

4You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes 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 Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?

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 us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble."

6But he gives all the more grace. And so he says, "God opposes the arrogant but gives grace to the humble."

7Submit yourselves, then, 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.

8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash 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.

9Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter 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 before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

10Humble yourselves in the Lord's presence, and he will exalt you.

11Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.

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 only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you--who are you to judge your neighbor?

12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge—the one who can save and destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor?

13Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."

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."

14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

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 it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."

15Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live—and do this or that."

16As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.

16But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

17If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.

17Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin.

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