James 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
KJV
ἢ δοκεῖτε ὅτι κενῶς ἡ γραφὴ λέγει, πρὸς φθόνον ἐπιποθεῖ τὸ πνεῦμα ὃ κατῴκισεν ἐν ἡμῖν;
Greek NT
An putatis quia inaniter Scriptura dicat : Ad invidiam concupiscit spiritus qui habitat in vobis ?
Vulgate
Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
ASV
Or do you think that the scripture saith in vain: To envy doth the spirit covet which dwelleth in you?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γραφή
graphe
noun · 50×
δοκέω
dokeo
verb · 62×
κατοικέω
katoikeo
verb · 45×
κενῶς
kenos
adverb · 1×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
φθόνος
phthonos
noun · 9×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπιποθέω
epipotheo
verb · 9×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ἤ
e
particle · 346×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: κατῴκισεν | WH/Treg/NIV: κατῴκισεν | RP: κατῴκησεν
- κατῴκισεν — SBLGNT
- κατῴκισεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- κατῴκησεν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2737"You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions."26 If we ask with a divided heart, we are "adulterers";27 God cannot answer us, for he desires our well-being, our life. "Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the scripture says, 'He yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us?'"28 That our God is "jealous" for us is t…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 2:12 — Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
- 1Cor 6:19 — What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
- 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- 1Sam 18:8 — And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
- 1Tim 5:18 — For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
- 2Cor 6:16 — And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my p
- Gal 5:17 — For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
- Gen 30:1 — And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
- Gen 38:9 — And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
- Judg 8:1 — And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.
- Luke 19:39 — And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
- Matt 27:18 — For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
- Mic 7:19 — He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
- Num 11:29 — And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD’s people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
- Num 11:29 — And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD’s people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
- Phil 2:3 — Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
- Prov 24:1 — Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
- Ps 37:1 — Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- Ps 73:3 — For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Rom 7:17 — Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
- Rom 13:13 — Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
- Titus 3:3 — For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.