James 4:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

Doe ye thinke that the Scripture sayeth in vaine, The spirit that dwelleth in vs, lusteth after enuie?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Knowe yee not, that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye haue of God? and yee are not your owne.
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath the Temple of God with idols? for ye are the Temple of the liuing God: as God hath said, I will dwell among them, and walke there: and I will be their God, and they shalbe my people.
  • Num 11:29 : 29 But Moses saide vnto him, Enuiest thou for my sake? yea, would God that all the Lordes people were Prophets, and that the Lord woulde put his Spirit vpon them.
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,

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    1From whence are warres and contentions among you? are they not hence, euen of your pleasures, that fight in your members?

    2Ye lust, and haue not: ye enuie, and desire immoderately, and cannot obtaine: ye fight and warre, and get nothing, because ye aske not.

    3Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.

    4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, knowe ye not that the amitie of the world is the enimitie of God? Whosoeuer therefore will be a friend of the world, maketh himselfe the enemie of God.

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    14But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth.

    15This wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, and deuilish.

    16For where enuying and strife is, there is sedition, and all maner of euill workes.

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  • Prov 27:4
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    4Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16Then I say, Walke in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lustes of the flesh.

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  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15Loue not this world, neither the things that are in this world. If any man loue this world, the loue of the Father is not in him.

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    5And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:

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    2Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.

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    14But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away by his owne concupiscence, and is entised.

    15Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth foorth sinne, and sinne when it is finished, bringeth foorth death.

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    15Some preache. Christ euen through enuie and strife, and some also of good will.

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    4He is puft vp & knoweth nothing, but doteth about questions & strife of words, whereof commeth enuie, strife, railings, euill surmisings,

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