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James 4:3-5
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
James 4:3-5
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
3 You ask and do not receive because you ask badly[a], in order that you may spend it in connection with your pleasures. 4 Adulterous[b] ones, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes-himself [c] an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture[d] speaks vainly? He yearns jealously for the spirit[e] which He made-to-dwell in us!
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- James 4:3 Or, wrongly. That is, with bad motives.
- James 4:4 James is referring to spiritual adultery.
- James 4:4 Or, is made, is constituted.
- James 4:5 That is, does Scripture in general speak to no purpose about spiritual adultery and God’s response to it? Or, Scripture as summarized and paraphrased in v 5b; or, Scripture as quoted in v 6.
- James 4:5 Or, Spirit. This may also be rendered ‘The Spirit which He caused-to-dwell in us yearns jealously for us’; or, ‘the spirit which he caused-to-dwell in us yearns enviously’ for the world.
Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT) 
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing
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