The Latin Vulgate VUL
New King James Version NKJV
1 unde bella et lites in vobis nonne hinc ex concupiscentiis vestris quae militant in membris vestris
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Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
2 concupiscitis et non habetis occiditis et zelatis et non potestis adipisci litigatis et belligeratis non habetis propter quod non postulatis
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You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
3 petitis et non accipitis eo quod male petatis ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis
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You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 adulteri nescitis quia amicitia huius mundi inimica est Dei quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse saeculi huius inimicus Dei constituitur
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Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 aut putatis quia inaniter scriptura dicat ad invidiam concupiscit Spiritus qui inhabitat in nobis
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Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?
6 maiorem autem dat gratiam propter quod dicit Deus superbis resistit humilibus autem dat gratiam
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But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."
7 subditi igitur estote Deo resistite autem diabolo et fugiet a vobis
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Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 adpropiate Domino et adpropinquabit vobis emundate manus peccatores et purificate corda duplices animo
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Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 miseri estote et lugete et plorate risus vester in luctum convertatur et gaudium in maerorem
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Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 humiliamini in conspectu Domini et exaltabit vos
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
11 nolite detrahere de alterutrum fratres qui detrahit fratri aut qui iudicat fratrem suum detrahit legi et iudicat legem si autem iudicas legem non es factor legis sed iudex
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Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
12 unus est legislator et iudex qui potest perdere et liberare tu autem quis es qui iudicas proximum
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There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?
13 ecce nunc qui dicitis hodie aut crastino ibimus in illam civitatem et faciemus quidem ibi annum et mercabimur et lucrum faciemus
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Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit";
14 qui ignoratis quid erit in crastinum quae enim est vita vestra vapor est ad modicum parens deinceps exterminatur
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whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
15 pro eo ut dicatis si Dominus voluerit et vixerimus faciemus hoc aut illud
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Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."
16 nunc autem exultatis in superbiis vestris omnis exultatio talis maligna est
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But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
17 scienti igitur bonum facere et non facienti peccatum est illi
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Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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