James 4:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at 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

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

Romans 7:5

While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Romans 8:7

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot;

Galatians 5:17

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you would.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another;

Titus 3:9

But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile.

James 1:14

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

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

2 Peter 3:3

First of all you must understand this, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own passions