Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
Or, do you think that the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He jealously yearns for the Spirit that He causes to dwell in your hearts"?
New American Standard Bible
Or do you think that the Scripture
King James Version
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Holman Bible
Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?
International Standard Version
Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God caused to live in us jealously yearns for us?
A Conservative Version
Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?
American Standard Version
Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
Amplified
Or do you think that the Scripture says to no purpose
An Understandable Version
Or, do you think that the Scripture says [this] for nothing? [Note: No specific passage is here cited, but the idea occurs in several Old Testament passages]. "The Holy Spirit, whom God has made to live in us, longs jealously [for us to be faithful to God]."
Anderson New Testament
Do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit that dwells in us incline to envy? No.
Bible in Basic English
Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?
Common New Testament
Or do you think that the Scripture says without reason: "He jealously desires the Spirit which he has made to dwell in us"?
Daniel Mace New Testament
or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?"
Darby Translation
Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?
Godbey New Testament
Whether do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit who dwells in us fights against envy?
Goodspeed New Testament
Do you suppose the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He yearns jealously over the Spirit he has put in our hearts?"
John Wesley New Testament
Do ye think, that the scripture saith in vain, The Spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth against envy?
Julia Smith Translation
Or think ye that the writing says vainly, That the spirit longs for envy, which dwelt in us?
King James 2000
Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?
Modern King James verseion
Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns to envy?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Either do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, "The spirit that dwelleth in you, lusteth even contrary to envy,"
Moffatt New Testament
What, do you consider this is an idle word of scripture? ??'He yearns jealously for the spirit he set within us.')
Montgomery New Testament
Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"
NET Bible
Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?
New Heart English Bible
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit which he made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?
Noyes New Testament
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, "Zealously doth the Spirit, which made its abode in us, long for us"?
Sawyer New Testament
Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit which dwells in us desires to envy?
The Emphasized Bible
Or think ye that, in vain, the scripture speaketh? Is it, for envying, that the spirit which hath taken an abode within us doth crave?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Think ye that the scripture saith without meaning, The spirit which dwelleth in you strongly urges to envy?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do you suppose there is no meaning in the passage of Scripture which asks--'Is envy to result from the longings of the Spirit which God has implanted within you?'
Webster
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Weymouth New Testament
Or do you suppose that it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "The Spirit which He has caused to dwell in our hearts yearns jealously over us"?
World English Bible
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
Worrell New Testament
Or do ye think that the Scripture says in vain, "The spirit that dwells in us has jealous longings?"
Worsley New Testament
Do ye think the scripture speaks in vain? or does the Spirit that dwelleth in us, excite to envy?
Youngs Literal Translation
Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
Interlinear
Hoti
ὅς ἥ ὅ
Hos
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Pneuma
Epipotheo
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:5
Prayers for James 4:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Subject Yourselves To God
4 You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God. 5 Or, do you think that the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He jealously yearns for the Spirit that He causes to dwell in your hearts"? 6 But He gives a greater spiritual blessing. He says, "God opposes haughty people but blesses humble people."
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Cross References
John 7:42
Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"
John 10:35
If men to whom God's message came are called gods -- and the Scriptures cannot be made null and void --
John 19:37
And again another Scripture says, "They shall look at Him whom they pierced."
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
Romans 1:29
because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will;
Romans 9:17
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you to your position for this very purpose of displaying my power in dealing with you, of announcing my name all over the earth."
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or, are you not conscious that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, whom you have as a gift from God? Furthermore, you are not your own,
2 Corinthians 6:16
And what agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: "I will live in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they will be my people."
Galatians 3:8
Because the Scripture foresaw that God would bring the heathen into right standing with Himself on condition of faith, He beforehand proclaimed the good news to Abraham in the promise, "It is through you that all the heathen will be blessed."
Titus 3:3
For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.