KJV:
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
NASB:
But someone may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works."
KJV:
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
NASB:
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
KJV:
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
NASB:
You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
KJV:
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
NASB:
Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.
KJV:
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
NASB:
Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
KJV:
Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
NASB:
and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.
KJV:
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
NASB:
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
KJV:
Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
NASB:
And I will also be diligent that at any time after my departure you will be able to call these things to mind.
KJV:
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
NASB:
So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts.