1From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?


In Context

1 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?

2 You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not.

3 You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

James 4:1 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:1From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:1Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:1Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:1Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:1Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:1Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence — out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:1From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?