World English Bible
James 4:5
“Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?”
Verse in context — James 4
3
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
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But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
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Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.