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


In Context

2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.

4 Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

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

6 But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.

7 Subject 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 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,'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:5Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?