James 4:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,
  • Num 11:29 : 29 And Moses saith to him, `Art thou zealous for me? O that all Jehovah's people were prophets! that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!'
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 And Jehovah seeth that abundant `is' the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

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    1Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

    2ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

    3ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.

    4Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

  • Jas 3:14-16
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    14and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

    15this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

    16for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;

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    6and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

  • Prov 27:4
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    4Fury `is' fierce, and anger `is' overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

    17for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

    16because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

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    5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

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    2For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

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    22do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

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    16and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

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    30A healed heart `is' life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones `is' envy.

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    14and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

    15afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

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    15Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • Num 5:14
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    14and a spirit of jealousy hath passed over him, and he hath been jealous of his wife, and she hath been defiled; -- or, a spirit of jealousy hath passed over him, and he hath been jealous of his wife, and she hath not been defiled --

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    6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

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    1Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them.

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    19And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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    21envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

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    4ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

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