Parallel Verses

Godbey New Testament

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

New American Standard Bible

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

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 that are at war within you?

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] quarrels and conflicts among you? Do they not come from your [hedonistic] desires that wage war in your [bodily] members [fighting for control over you]?

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?

Common New Testament

What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

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?

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
πόθεν 
Pothen 
Usage: 17

πόλεμος 
Polemos 
Usage: 12

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

μάχη 
Mache 
Usage: 4

ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

you
ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

come they not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

ἐντεύθεν 
Enteuthen 
Usage: 8

even of
ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371
Usage: 371

ἡδονή 
hedone 
Usage: 4

στρατεύομαι 
Strateuomai 
Usage: 7

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Images James 4:1

Prayers for James 4:1

Context Readings

Subject Yourselves To God

1 Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members? 2 You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask:

Cross References

Romans 7:23

but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Mark 7:21-23

For within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, fornications, murders,

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you wish to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there was no truth in him. When he may speak a lie, he speaks of his own: because he is a liar, and the father of the same.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Romans 8:7

Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be.

Galatians 5:17

For carnality wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit against carnality; for these are antagonistical to one another; so that you may not do the things which you may wish.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

1 Timothy 6:4-10

he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings,

Titus 3:3

For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;

Titus 3:9

but reject foolish questions, and genealogies, and strife, and controversies about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

James 1:14

but each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out, and enticed.

James 3:14-18

But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth.

James 4:3

you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

As children of obedience, not being fashioned after your former lusts in ignorance:

1 Peter 4:2-3

that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion;

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first, that at the last days mockers will come forth in scoffing, walking according to their own lusts,

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him:

Jude 1:16-18

These are querulous grumblers, going forth according to their own lusts; and their mouth speaking swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of gain.

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