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James 4:5

The Holy SpiritGod's love

3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

6 But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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BSB
Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
KJV
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
WEB
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
ASV
Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
DARBY
Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?
BLB
Or do you⁺ think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit that He made to dwell in us yearns with envy”?
ÅB
Eller mener dere at Skriften taler fåfengt? Med nidkjærhet attrår han den ånd han lot bo i oss, men dess større er den nåde han gir.
OTB
Eller tror dere at Skriften taler uten grunn når den sier at Han nidkjært ønsker den ånd Han har latt bo i oss?
B1930
Eller mener I at Skriften taler fåfengt? Med nidkjærhet attrår han den ånd han lot bo i oss, men dess større er den nåde han gir.

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Cross references

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16

    What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

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  • 1 Corinthians 6:19

    Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

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  • Numbers 11:29

    But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

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  • Titus 3:3

    For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

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  • Psalms 37:1

    Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

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  • Genesis 8:21

    When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

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