Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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?
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
Humon
ὑμῶν
Humon
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 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? 2 You crave, yet do not obtain. You murder and rage, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not obtain, because you do not ask.
Cross References
Romans 7:23
But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.
Mark 7:21-23
For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery,
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.
John 8:44
As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.
Romans 7:5
When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.
Romans 8:7
Because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.
Galatians 5:17
For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature--they are two contrary principles--so that you cannot do what you wish.
Colossians 3:5
Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.
1 Timothy 6:4-10
is puffed up with conceit, not really knowing anything, but having a morbid craving for discussions and arguments. Such things only give rise to envy, quarreling, recriminations, base suspicions,
Titus 3:3
There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.
Titus 3:9
But have nothing to do with foolish discussions, or with genealogies, or with controversy, or disputes about the Law. They are useless and futile.
James 1:14
A man is in every case tempted by his own passions--allured and enticed by them.
James 3:14-18
But, while you harbor envy and bitterness and a spirit of rivalry in your hearts, do not boast or lie to the detriment of the Truth.
James 4:3
You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.
1 Peter 1:14
Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,
1 Peter 4:2-3
and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.
2 Peter 2:18
With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.
2 Peter 3:3
First be assured of this, that, as the age draws to an end, scoffers, led by their own passions,
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;
Jude 1:16-18
These men are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words upon their lips; and they flatter men for the sake of what they can get from them.