For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings.
James 4:1 - Wesley's New Testament 1755 From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? |
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings.
Ye are of your father the devil, and your will is, to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth; for there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my members.
For when we were in the flesh, sinful passions, which were by the law, wrought in our members, so as to bring forth fruit unto death.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
For the flesh desireth against the Spirit, but the Spirit desireth against the flesh (these are contrary to each other) that ye may not do the things which ye would.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
But avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strife:
For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, inslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in wickedness and envy, hateful, hating one another:
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own desire and inticed.
Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your pleasures.
As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance;
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly desires,
For by speaking swelling words of vanity, they allure thro' the desire of the flesh, thro' wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them that live in error.