James 1:15 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then, when the evil desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. And when sin is fully grown, it produces [spiritual] death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then the evil desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully matured, brings forth death.

American Standard Version (1901)

Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

Common English Bible

Once those cravings conceive, they give birth to sin; and when sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

James 1:15 Cross References

Matthew 26:14

Then one of the twelve apostles, named Judas Iscariot, went to the leading priests

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with an improper sexual desire for her [body], has already been sexually unfaithful to his mate in his heart.

James 1:14

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own evil desire.

James 1:18

It was God’s purpose to bring us into being [spiritually] by the message of truth, so that we could become a kind of “first fruits” of those He created. [Note: “First fruits” here suggests either that Christians are the best of all of God’s creatures (Num. 18:12), or that they were the first to be converted, with many more to come].