James 4:4-6
Evangelical Heritage Version
4 Adulterers,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or, do you think that Scripture has no reason for saying that the Spirit, who lives in us,[b] yearns jealously?[c] 6 But he gives greater grace! That is why it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”[d]
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- James 4:4 Some witnesses to the text read Adulterous men and women or Adulterers and adulteresses.
- James 4:5 Some witnesses to the text read that he caused to live in us.
- James 4:5 Or strongly opposes envy
- James 4:6 Proverbs 3:34
James 4:4-6
New International Version
4 You adulterous(A) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(B) means enmity against God?(C) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(D) 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[b]?(E) 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
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