James 4:1
James chapter 4 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
KJV
King James Version · 1611From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Whence 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.