James 1:14 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁴ It is the evil things a person wants that tempt that person. His own evil desire leads him away and holds him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ But every person is tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Everyone is tempted by their own cravings; they are lured away and enticed by them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

James 1:14 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw the tree was beautiful. She saw the fruit was good to eat. And it was exciting that the tree would make her wise. So the woman took fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some of the fruit to him and he ate it.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. The Lord saw that people thought only about evil things all the time.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled these sacrifices, and it pleased him. The Lord said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground as a way to punish people. People are evil from the time that they are young. So I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth like I have just done.

2 Samuel 11:4

David sent messengers to go and bring Bathsheba to him. When she came to David, he had sexual relations with her. She washed herself, and then went back to her house.

Job 31:27

I was never foolish enough\par to worship the sun and the moon.\par

Job 31:9

“If I have desired another woman\par or waited at my neighbor’s door\par to sin with his wife,\par

Proverbs 4:23

The most important thing is for you to be careful in the things you think. Your thoughts control your life.

Isaiah 44:20

That man does not know what he is doing. He is confused, so his heart leads him the wrong way. That man can’t save himself. And he can’t see that he is doing wrong. That man will not say, “This statue I am holding is a false god.”

Hosea 13:9

“Israel, I helped you. But you turned against me. So now I will destroy you!

Matthew 15:18

But the bad things a person says with his mouth come from the way a person thinks. And these are the things that make a person wrong. {\cf2\super [209]}

Matthew 15:20

These things make a person wrong. But not washing his hands before he eats does not make a person wrong.”

Matthew 4:1

Then the Spirit {\cf2\super [47]} led Jesus into the desert. Jesus was taken there to be tempted by the devil.

Matthew 5:28

But I tell you that if a person looks at a woman and wants to sin sexually with her, then that person has already done that sin with the woman in his mind.

Romans 7:11

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command. Sin used the command to make me die \{spiritually\}.

Romans 7:13

Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No! But sin used something that is good to bring death to me. This happened so that I could see what sin is really like. It happened to show that sin is something very, very bad. And the command was used to show this.

Ephesians 4:22

You were taught to leave your old self. This means that you must stop living the evil way you lived before. That old self becomes worse and worse, because people are fooled by the evil things they want to do.

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage each other every day. Do this while it is “today. {\cf2\super [19]} ” Help each other so that none of you will become hardened because of sin and the way sin fools people.

James 1:13

When a person is being tempted, he should not say, “God is tempting me.” Evil cannot tempt God. And God himself does not tempt any person.

James 1:15

This desire causes sin. Then the sin grows and brings death.