Hebrew Names Version HNV
New International Version NIV
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you 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 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of 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 speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges 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.
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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 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
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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 let's go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get 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 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
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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 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both 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 now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting 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 to do good, and doesn't do it, 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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