Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death.

New American Standard Bible

Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

King James Version

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Holman Bible

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

International Standard Version

When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

American Standard Version

Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

Amplified

Then when the illicit desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin has run its course, it gives birth to death.

An Understandable Version

Then, when the evil desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. And when sin is fully grown, it produces [spiritual] death.

Anderson New Testament

So, then, desire, when it has conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when it is matured, brings forth death.

Bible in Basic English

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

Common New Testament

Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is full-grown, it brings forth death.

Daniel Mace New Testament

and the genuine offspring of sin is death.

Darby Translation

then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.

Godbey New Testament

Then the lust, conceiving, brings forth sin; and sin, having been perfected, produces death.

Goodspeed New Testament

Then desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is mature, it brings forth death.

John Wesley New Testament

Then desire having conceived, bringeth forth sin; and sin being perfected, bringeth forth death.

Julia Smith Translation

So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death.

King James 2000

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then desire, [after it] has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, [when it] is brought to completion, gives birth to death.

Modern King James verseion

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Then when lust hath conceived, she bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.

Moffatt New Testament

then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.

Montgomery New Testament

Then lust conceives and gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is mature, brings forth death.

NET Bible

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

New Heart English Bible

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

Noyes New Testament

then lust, having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when completed, bringeth forth death.

Sawyer New Testament

then the desire taking effect produces sin, and sin being finished brings forth death.

The Emphasized Bible

Then, the coveting, having conceived, giveth birth to sin, and, the sin, when full-grown, bringeth forth death.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Then passion impregnated, bringeth forth sin, and sin reaching its consummation, bringeth forth death.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Then Passion conceives and gives birth to Sin, and Sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth Death.

Webster

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Weymouth New Testament

Then the passion conceives, and becomes the parent of sin; and sin, when fully matured, gives birth to death.

Williams New Testament

Then evil desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is completed, it brings forth death.

World English Bible

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

Worrell New Testament

Then the desire, having conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when completed, brings forth death.

Worsley New Testament

Then desire having conceived bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.

Youngs Literal Translation

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
εἶτα 
Eita 
Usage: 12

ἐπιθυμία 
Epithumia 
Usage: 35

συλλαμβάνω 
Sullambano 
Usage: 14

τίκτω 
Tikto 
bring forth, be delivered, be born, be in travail, bear
Usage: 18

sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143
Usage: 143

and
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

when it is finished
ἀποτελέω 
Apoteleo 
Usage: 1

ἀποκυέω 
Apokueo 
Usage: 2

Devotionals

Devotionals about James 1:15

Devotionals containing James 1:15

References

American

Easton

Sin

Fausets

Images James 1:15

Context Readings

Testing And Tempting

14 But each man is tempted by his own lust, being drawn away and enticed. 15 Then the lust having conceived, it gives birth to sin, and after being complete the sin brings forth death. 16 Be not led astray, my beloved brothers.



Cross References

Job 15:35

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.

Psalm 7:14

Behold [the wicked man], he travails with iniquity. Yea, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Isaiah 59:4

No man sues in righteousness, and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Genesis 2:17

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and h

Genesis 3:17-19

And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all

Genesis 4:5-8

but he did not have respect to Cain and to his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

Psalm 9:17

Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Micah 2:1-3

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Matthew 26:14

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, having gone to the chief priests,

Matthew 26:48-59

Now the man who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomever I may kiss is he. Seize him.

Acts 5:1-3

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold property,

Romans 5:12-21

Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.

Romans 6:21-23

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Revelation 20:14-15

And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

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