Sinai LogoSinai

James 4:5

World English Bible

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Read all of James 4Open in the Sinai app

James 4:5 in other translations

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

James 4:5 · American Standard Version

James 4:5 in context

  1. 3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
  2. 4You 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.
  3. 5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
  4. 6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
  5. 7Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.