Submit Yourselves to God - What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not.

New International Version. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us [a]?

5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? NIV: New International Version.

5 Don't you know what Scripture says? The spirit that God caused to live in us wants us to belong only to God. Don't you think Scripture has a reason for saying ...

Friendship with the world means enmity against God. Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

NIV Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us ? NASB Or do you think that the Scripture ...

The Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God caused to live in us jealously yearns for us.

You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of...

The grace of God will correct and cure the spirit by nature in us; and where he gives grace, he gives another spirit than that of the world.