New International Reader's Version NIRV
New International Version NIV
8 Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners. Make your hearts pure, you who can't make up your minds.
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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 full of sorrow. Cry and sob. Change your laughter to crying. Change your joy to sadness.
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Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Bow down to the Lord. He will lift you up.
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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 My brothers and sisters, don't speak against one another. Anyone who speaks against another believer speaks against the law. And anyone who judges another believer judges the law. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it. Instead, you are acting as if you were its 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 only one Lawgiver and Judge. He is the One who is able to save life or destroy it. 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 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city. We will spend a year there. We will buy and sell and make money."
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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 will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist that appears for a little while. Then it disappears.
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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 it pleases the Lord, 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 As it is, you are proud. You brag about it. That kind of bragging is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 So when you know the good things you should do and don't do them, you 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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