The Darby Translation DBY
New International Version NIV
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded.
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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 wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
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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 shall exalt you.
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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law, thou art not doer of [the] law, but 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 One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour?
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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 Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,
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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 ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)
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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 of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also 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 now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 To him therefore who knows how to do good, and does it not, to him it is 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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