Parallel Verses
Sawyer New Testament
Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that 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?
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?
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?
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
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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 Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You 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 making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.
Mark 7:21-23
for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications,
1 Peter 2:11
BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of him [that lies].
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;
Romans 8:7
Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,
1 Timothy 6:4-10
he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,
Titus 3:3
For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another;
Titus 3:9
But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.
James 1:14
But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his desires, and enticed;
James 3:14-18
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not against the truth.
James 4:3
you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.
1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,
1 Peter 4:2-3
that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their inordinate desires,
1 John 2:15-17
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
Jude 1:16-18
These are complainers, censorious, walking after their inordinate desires, and their mouth speaks proud words, showing admiration of persons for the sake of gain.