James 4:5
World English Bible (WEB)
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
In context
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward 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. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:5 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
- KJV King James Version
- Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
- ASV American Standard Version
- Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
- DBY Darby Translation
- Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?