THE SPIRIT WHO DWELLS IN US YEARNS JEALOUSLY (James 4:5)
1. These exact words are not found in the Old Testament, or even in the Apocryphal books. James may have been quoting them as being the general teaching of Scripture. In the RV this verse is broken into two questions: "Or think ye that the Scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which He made to dwell in us long unto envying?" Here the thought is that the spirit that dwells in us (the spirit of lust and envy) is the cause of all our unfaithfulness to God.
2. The Holy Spirit whom God caused to dwell in us does not originate the lust and jealousy which cause strife; rather He yearns over us with jealously for our entire devotion to Christ. "Do you think this passage means nothing? It says, “The Spirit that lives in us wants us to be his own.” (James 4:5, Names of God Bible). The KJV, NKJV, HCSB, NCV translate the word "Spirit" with a capital "S" denoting the "Holy Spirit."
1. These exact words are not found in the Old Testament, or even in the Apocryphal books. James may have been quoting them as being the general teaching of Scripture. In the RV this verse is broken into two questions: "Or think ye that the Scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which He made to dwell in us long unto envying?" Here the thought is that the spirit that dwells in us (the spirit of lust and envy) is the cause of all our unfaithfulness to God.
2. The Holy Spirit whom God caused to dwell in us does not originate the lust and jealousy which cause strife; rather He yearns over us with jealously for our entire devotion to Christ. "Do you think this passage means nothing? It says, “The Spirit that lives in us wants us to be his own.” (James 4:5, Names of God Bible). The KJV, NKJV, HCSB, NCV translate the word "Spirit" with a capital "S" denoting the "Holy Spirit."
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