5Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?


In Context

2 You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.

3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

5 Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?

6 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:5Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, |The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously|?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:5Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'