Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
New International Version NIV
8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!
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Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.
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Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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.
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Brothers 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.
12 There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
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There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
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."
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Now 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.”
14 You don't even know what tomorrow will bring-what your life will be! For you are a bit of smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
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Why, 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 Instead, you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."
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Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
16 But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 So, for the person who knows to do good and doesn't do it, it is a sin.
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If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
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