Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 Where do the wars and disputes <em>come</em> from among you? From here <em>that is to say</em>, of your lusts which fight in your members?
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What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
2 Ye covet and have not; ye murder, and have envy and cannot obtain; ye fight and war and have not that which ye desire because ye ask not.
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You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
3 Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume <em>it</em> upon your pleasures.
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When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.
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You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?
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Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us ?
6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.
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But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
7 Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse <em>your</em> hands, <em>ye</em> sinners; and purify <em>your</em> hearts, <em>ye</em> 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 afflicted and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and <em>your</em> joy to heaviness.
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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 shall lift you up.
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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Murmur not against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil of <em>his</em> brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a keeper 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, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou 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, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell 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 and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what <em>is</em> your life? Certainly it is a vapour 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 Ye <em>ought</em> to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall 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 boast in your arrogance; all such glory is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 Therefore sin is <em>still</em> in the one that knows to do good and does not do <em>it</em>.
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If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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