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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. Or, do you think that Scripture has no reason for saying that the Spirit, who lives in us,[b] yearns jealously?[c] 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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  1. James 4:4 Some witnesses to the text read Adulterous men and women or Adulterers and adulteresses.
  2. James 4:5 Some witnesses to the text read that he caused to live in us.
  3. James 4:5 Or strongly opposes envy
  4. James 4:6 Proverbs 3:34

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) Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[b]?(E) But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”[c](F)

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  1. James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.
  2. James 4:5 Or that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely; or that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously
  3. James 4:6 Prov. 3:34