James 4:1 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ WHAT LEADS to strife (discord and feuds) and how do conflicts (quarrels and fightings) originate among you? Do they not arise from your sensual desires that are ever warring in your bodily members?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Common English Bible

¹ What is the source of conflict among you? What is the source of your disputes? Don’t they come from your cravings that are at war in your own lives?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?

English Standard Version 2016

¹ What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

James 4:1 Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

John 8:44

You are of your father, the devil. And you will carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own self. For he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

But I perceive another law within my body, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me with the law of sin which is in my body.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.

Romans 8:7

And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And since these are against one another, you may not do whatever you want.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,

2 Timothy 2:23

But avoid foolish and undisciplined questions, for you know that these produce strife.

Titus 3:3

For, in times past, we ourselves were also unwise, unbelieving, erring, servants of various desires and pleasures, acting with malice and envy, being hateful and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, as well as arguments against the law. For these are useless and empty.

James 1:14

Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away.

James 4:3

You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

1 Peter 1:14

Be like sons of obedience, not conforming to the desires of your former ignorance,

1 Peter 2:11

Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.

2 Peter 2:18

For, speaking with the arrogance of vanity, they lure, by the desires of fleshly pleasures, those who are fleeing to some extent, who are being turned from error,

2 Peter 3:3

Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires,