5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
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.
4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
4:5Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
4:5Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
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?