5Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
5Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
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;
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?
4:5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, |The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously|?
4:5Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?