James 1:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to 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

Genesis 2:17

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”

Genesis 3:6

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.

2 Samuel 11:4

So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house.

Job 15:35

They conceive mischief and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.”

Psalm 7:14

See how they conceive evil and are pregnant with mischief and bring forth lies.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 11:19

Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but whoever pursues evil will die.

Isaiah 33:11

You conceive chaff; you bring forth stubble; wind like a fire will consume you.

Isaiah 59:4

No one brings suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas; they speak lies, conceiving mischief and bearing iniquity.

Matthew 26:14

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

James 1:14

But one is tempted by one’s own desire, being lured and enticed by it;

James 1:18

In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.