James 4:5

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Cross References

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God saith: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

1 Corinthians 6:19

Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own?

Numbers 11:29

But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that all the people might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit!

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Psalm 37:1

A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath.

Genesis 8:21

And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Genesis 37:11

His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.

Genesis 30:1

And Rachel, seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die.

Genesis 26:14

And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines, envying him,

Genesis 6:5

And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

Galatians 3:8

And the scripture, foreseeing, that God justifieth the Gentiles by faith, told unto Abraham before: In thee shall all nations be blessed.

Acts 7:9

And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; and God was with him,

John 10:35

If he called them gods, to whom to word of God was spoken, and the scripture cannot be broken;

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again I considered all the labours of men, and I remarked that their industries are exposed to the envy of their neighbour: so in this also there is vanity, and fruitless care.

Proverbs 21:10

The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.

Psalm 106:16

Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst the iron bars.

Romans 1:29

Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers,

Romans 9:17

For the scripture saith to Pharao: To this purpose have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Isaiah 11:13

And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not fight against Ephraim.

John 19:37

And again another scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced.

John 7:42

Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town where David was?

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that he should lie: nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? Hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

Genesis 38:9

He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother's wife, spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother's name.