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


In Context

2 You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.

3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

4 You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

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

6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

7 Submit yourselves, then, 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 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,'

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?