James 4:1

James chapter 4 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Context

v.1This passage

v.2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • James 3:14

    But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

  • Matthew 15:19

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

  • 1 Peter 1:14

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

  • 1 Timothy 6:4

    he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

  • 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.

  • James 4:3

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