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

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

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

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

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

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    16 Then I say, Walke in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lustes of the flesh.

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

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

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