James 1:15 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁵ Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown brings forth death.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ 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, and he ate.

2 Samuel 11:4

So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.

Job 15:35

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

Psalm 7:14

Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.

Psalm 9:17

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

Proverbs 11:19

He who is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.

Isaiah 33:11

You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

Isaiah 59:4

No one enters suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth 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 every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

James 1:14

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

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.