James 4:1 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹ From where [come] wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

More versions

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?

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?

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?

James 4:1 Cross References

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own [resources], for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

But I see a different law in my members, waging war against the law of my mind, and capturing me by the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

Romans 8:7

Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these things oppose each other, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they bring forth fights.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish disputes and genealogies, and strifes and legal fights; for they are unprofitable and futile.

James 1:14

But each [one] is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn away and being seduced [by them].

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend [it] in [gratifying] your lusts.

1 Peter 1:14

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves [after] the former lusts, [as you did in ]your ignorance;

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I implore you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from the lusts of the flesh which war against the soul;

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak haughty [words] of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first: that mockers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,