James 4:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹ Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that 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 it is desperately sick: who can know it?

Matthew 15:19

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

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, the which is idolatry;

2 Timothy 2:23

But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.

Titus 3:3

For we also were aforetime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Titus 3:9

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

James 1:14

but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,