James 4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?James 4:5 · WEB
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- ગુજરાતી — યાકૂબનો પત્ર ૪:૫
- જે આત્માને તેમણે આપણામાં વસાવ્યો, તેને તે પોતાનો જ કરવાની ઇચ્છા રાખે છે, એવું શાસ્ત્રવચનમાં કહે છે તે શું ફોકટ છે એમ તમે ધારો છો?
- हिन्दी — याकूब ४:५
- क्या तुम यह समझते हो, कि पवित्रशास्त्र व्यर्थ कहता है? “जिस पवित्र आत्मा को उसने हमारे भीतर बसाया है, क्या वह ऐसी लालसा करता है, जिसका प्रतिफल डाह हो”?
In context
3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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