| New King James Version | English 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? | 1What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? |
| 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 desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. |
| 3You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. | 3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. |
| 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 adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself 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 suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? |
| 6But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” | 6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” |
| 7Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. | 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee 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. | 8Draw near to God, and he will draw near 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 wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. |
| 10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. | 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, 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 speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a 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, he who is able to save and to destroy. But 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”; | 13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— |
| 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. | 14yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. |
| 15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” | 15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” |
| 16But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. | 16As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. |
| 17Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. | 17So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. All rights reserved. |
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