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James 4:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

9 Be distressed and grieve and cry [over your sins]; your laughter should turn into grieving and your joy [should turn] into sorrow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

9 [As you draw near to God] be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep [over your disloyalty]. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame [for your sins].

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American Standard Version (1901)

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

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Common English Bible

9 Cry out in sorrow, mourn, and weep! Let your laughter become mourning and your joy become sadness.

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Catholic Public Domain Version

9 Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow.

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James 4:9
25 Cross References  

“Those persons who feel grief [over their sins] are blessed because they will receive comfort [from God when they repent].


It is too bad for you people who have plenty to eat now, because you will be hungry [later on]. It is too bad for you people who are laughing now, because you will grieve and cry [later on].


But Abraham said [to him], ‘Son, remember how you enjoyed good things when you were alive [on earth] and how Lazarus had to put up with bad things? But now here [i.e., in the unseen place of departed spirits] he is being comforted and you are in agony.


Those of you who now have an appetite [i.e., for doing what is right] are blessed, because you will be satisfied [eventually]. Those of you who cry now [i.e., over your sins] are blessed, because you will laugh [i.e., when you are forgiven later].


They answered him; “He will bring terrible destruction on those evil men and will lease the vineyard to other tenant farmers who will deliver the crops to him each harvest time.”


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