5Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'


In Context

2 ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

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

4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

6 and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

7 be subject, then, to God; stand up against 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 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 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?