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James 4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
James 4:5 · World English Bible
James 4:5 in other translations
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit which He made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?
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In context
2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and 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 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.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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