James 4:5 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Or do you suppose that the Scripture is speaking to no purpose that says, The Spirit Whom He has caused to dwell in us yearns over us and He yearns for the Spirit [to be welcome] with a jealous love? [Jer. 3:14; Hos. 2:19ff.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

Common English Bible

⁵ Or do you suppose that scripture is meaningless? Doesn’t God long for our faithfulness in the life he has given to us?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: "The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?

James 4:5 Cross References

John 10:35

If He called those gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

John 19:37

And again another Scripture says, "They shall look at [Him] whom they pierced."

John 7:42

Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the village of Bethlehem, where David was?"

Acts 7:9

"And the patriarchs, being jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; and God was with him,

Romans 1:29

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers,

Romans 9:17

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

1 Corinthians 6:19

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what union is there for the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, just as God has said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

Galatians 3:8

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, [saying] that, "In you all the nations shall be blessed."

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.