Parallel Verses
Common New Testament
What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Holman Bible
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings
International Standard Version
Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?
A Conservative Version
From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?
American Standard Version
Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
Amplified
What leads to [the unending]
An Understandable Version
Where do conflicts and fights among you come from? Do they not come from your [desire for] pleasures which produces inner conflict?
Anderson New Testament
Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?
Bible in Basic English
What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
Daniel Mace New Testament
you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.
Darby Translation
Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?
Godbey New Testament
Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?
Goodspeed New Testament
What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?
John Wesley New Testament
From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members?
Julia Smith Translation
Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members
King James 2000
From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Lexham Expanded Bible
From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?
Modern King James verseion
From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?
Moffatt New Testament
Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?
Montgomery New Testament
Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?
NET Bible
Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?
New Heart English Bible
Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?
Noyes New Testament
Whence are wars and whence are fightings among you? Are they not hence, from your lusts that war in your members?
Sawyer New Testament
Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?
The Emphasized Bible
Whence wars and whence fightings among you? are they not from hence - due to your pleasures which are taking the field in your members?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?
Twentieth Century New Testament
What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?
Webster
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?
Weymouth New Testament
What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?
Williams New Testament
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.
World English Bible
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Worrell New Testament
Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
Worsley New Testament
Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?
Youngs Literal Translation
Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
Themes
Ambition » Leads to strife and contention
Error » Definition of » Origin of
Sin » Of youth, results of » Origin of
Transgression » Sin, definition of » Origin of
Topics
Interlinear
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Usage: 371
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 4:1
Images James 4:1
Prayers for James 4:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Subject Yourselves To God
1 What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members? 2 You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Cross References
Romans 7:23
but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.
Mark 7:21-23
For from within, out of the heart of men, come evil thoughts, fornications, theft, murder, adultery,
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against your soul.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornications, theft, false witness, slander.
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Romans 7:5
While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Romans 8:7
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so;
Galatians 5:17
For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you would.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.
1 Timothy 6:4-10
he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, which produce envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions,
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another.
Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and quarrels about the Law, for they are unprofitable and useless.
James 1:14
But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own desire.
James 3:14-18
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
James 4:3
You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,
1 Peter 4:2-3
so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking out arrogant words of vanity, they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.
2 Peter 3:3
First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days, with scoffing, following their own lusts
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Jude 1:16-18
These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for their own advantage.