5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, |The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously|?
5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, |The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously|?
2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, |The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously|?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, |God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.|
7 Be subject therefore to God. But 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 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?
4:5Or 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?
4:5Do 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?