| International Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 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? | 1What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within 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 crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. 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. | 3And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures. |
| 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. | 4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. |
| 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 says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy? |
| 6But he gives all the more grace. And so he says, "God opposes the arrogant but gives grace to the humble." | 6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” |
| 7Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will run away from you. | 7Submit yourselves, then, to God. 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 purify your hearts, 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 to mourning, and your joy to gloom. |
| 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. | 11Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it. |
| 12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge—the one who can save and destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor? | 12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But 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 to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on 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 even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. |
| 15Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live—and do this or that." | 15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.” |
| 16But you boast about your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. | 16As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. |
| 17Therefore, anyone who knows what is right but fails to do it is guilty of sin. | 17Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin. |
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