5Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
5Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
2 You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not.
3 You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.
4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
6 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
7 Be subject therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will fly from you.
4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
4:5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
4:5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
4:5Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?
4:5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
4:5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, |The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously|?
4:5Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
4:5Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?