James 4:5

World English Bible (2000)

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
  • Num 11:29 : 29 Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh's people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!"
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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