1 What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?
1 (a)What is the source of quarrels and (A)conflicts among you? (b)Is not the source your pleasures that wage (B)war in your members?
1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
1 What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings(A) that are at war within you?(a)
1 Where 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?
2 You crave, yet do not obtain. You murder and rage, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not obtain, because you do not ask.
2 You lust and do not have; so you (C)commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
2 You 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.
2 You 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!
3 You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.
3 You ask and (D)do not receive, because you ask (c)with wrong motives, so that you may spend it (d)on your pleasures.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
3 You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.(B)
3 You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason for your own pleasure.
4 Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
4 You (E)adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with (F)the world is (G)hostility toward God? (H)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
4 Adulteresses!(b)(c) 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.(C)
4 You 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.
5 Do you suppose there is no meaning in the passage of Scripture which asks--'Is envy to result from the longings of the Spirit which God has implanted within you?'
5 Or do you think that the Scripture (I)speaks to no purpose: “(e)He (f)jealously desires (J)the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
5 Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?(d)(D)
5 Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God caused to live in us jealously yearns for us?
6 No; the gift that God gives is for a nobler end; and that is why it is said--'God is opposed to the haughty, but gives help to the humble.'
6 But (K)He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “(L)God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
6 But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:God resists the proud,but gives grace to the humble.(E)(e)
6 But he gives all the more grace. And so he says, "God opposes the arrogant but gives grace to the humble."
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillating men!
8 (O)Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (P)Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and (Q)purify your hearts, you (R)double-minded.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!(G)
8 Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!
9 (S)Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
9 Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.
11 Do not disparage one another, Brothers. He who disparages his Brother, or passes judgment on his Brother, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.
11 (U)Do not speak against one another, (V)brethren. He who speaks against a brother or (W)judges his brother, speaks against (X)the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not (Y)a doer of the law but a judge of it.
11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
11 Don’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.(I)
11 Do 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.
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge--he who has the power both to save and to destroy. But who are you that pass judgment on your neighbor?
12 There is only one (Z)Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is (AA)able to save and to destroy; but (AB)who are you who judge your neighbor?
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
12 There is one lawgiver and judge(f) who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?(J)
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge the one who can save and destroy. So who are you to judge your neighbor?
13 Listen to me, you who say 'To-day or to-morrow we will go to such and such a town, spend a year there, and trade, and make money,'
13 (AC)Come now, you who say, “(AD)Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
13 Come 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.”(K)
13 Now 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."
14 And yet you do not know what your life will be like to-morrow! For you are but a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.
14 (g)Yet you do not know (h)what your life will be like tomorrow. (AE)You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
14 You 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.(L)
14 You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15 You ought, rather, to say 'If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.'
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
15 Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
15 Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."
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