1 GLT From where{ are} wars and from where{ are} battles among you?{ Are they} not from there, from your lusts, the ones fighting in your members? BSB BSB: What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
2 GLT You covet, and you do not have. You kill and envy, and you are not able to obtain. You battle and war. You do not have because you do not ask. BSB BSB: You 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.
3 GLT You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may spend on your lusts. BSB BSB: And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
4 GLT Adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world is made an enemy of God. BSB BSB: You 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.
5 GLT Or do you think that the scripture says vainly,“The Spirit whom he caused to live in us longs with jealousy”? BSB BSB: Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
6 GLT But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,“God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.” BSB BSB: But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 GLT Be submitted, therefore, to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. BSB BSB: Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 GLT Come near to God and he will come near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double- minded. BSB BSB: Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 GLT Be miserable and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be changed into mourning, and your joy into gloom. BSB BSB: Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
10 GLT Be humbled before the Lord, and he will lift you up. BSB BSB: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
11 GLT Do not speak against one another, brothers. The one speaking against a brother or judging his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. BSB BSB: Brothers, 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.
12 GLT There is one lawgiver and judge, the one being able to save and to destroy. But who are you, the one judging your neighbor? BSB BSB: There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
14 GLT You who do not know the thing of the tomorrow, of what sort{ is} your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little{ while} and then disappears. BSB BSB: 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.
15 GLT Instead, you should say,“If the Lord wishes, we will both live and do this or that.” BSB BSB: Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
16 GLT But now you are boasting in your pretensions. All such boasting is evil. BSB BSB: As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
17 GLT Therefore to the one having known to do good and not doing{ it}, to him it is sin. BSB BSB: Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
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