James 4:1 - Modern English Version

¹ Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from your lusts that war in your body?

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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?

James 4:1 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is more deceitful than all things and desperately wicked; who can understand it?

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

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

Romans 7:5

When we were in the flesh, the passions of sin, through the law, worked in our members to bear fruit leading to death.

Romans 8:7

for the carnal mind is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be,

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death the parts of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

But avoid foolish and unlearned debates, knowing that they create strife.

Titus 3:3

We also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in evil and envy, filled with hatred and hating each other.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, contentions, and arguments about the law, for they are unprofitable and useless.

James 1:14

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

James 4:3

You ask, and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children do not conduct yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance.

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I implore you as aliens and refugees, abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak arrogant words of vanity, they entice by the lusts of the flesh and by depravity those who barely escaped from those who live in error.

2 Peter 3:3

Know this first, that there shall come scoffers in the last days who walk after their own lusts,