James 1:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

Cross References

Genesis 2:17

But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

2 Samuel 11:4

And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: for she had been made clean; then she went back to her house.

Job 15:35

Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

Psalm 7:14

That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

Psalm 9:17

The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

Proverbs 11:19

So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

Isaiah 33:11

Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

Isaiah 59:4

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

Matthew 26:14

Then one of the twelve, who was named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

James 1:14

But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

James 1:18

Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.