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

¹⁵ Then, when the evil desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. And when sin is fully grown, it produces [spiritual] death.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ 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)

¹⁵ Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Once those cravings conceive, they give birth to sin; and when sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces 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].