James 4:1 — Compare Translations

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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?

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

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?

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

You fight and quarrel among yourselves. Do you know why that happens? It is because of the troubles in your thoughts. You want to do bad things that you think will make you happy.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Do you know where your fights and arguments come from? They come from the selfish desires that make war inside you.

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you.

English God's Word - GW 1995

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Aren't they caused by the selfish desires that fight to control you?

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

What is the source of the wars and the fights among you? Don't they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

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

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members?

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Why do you fight and argue among yourselves? Isn't it because of your sinful longings? They fight inside you.

English NIV

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

English NKJ 1982

Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?

English NLT

What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn't it the whole army of evil desires at war within you?

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

What is the cause of your conflicts and quarrels with each other? Doesn’t the battle begin inside of you as you fight to have your own way and fulfill your own desires?

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn't it because there is a whole army of evil desires within you?

English Tyndale 1537

From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? come they not here hence? even of your voluptuousness that raineth(rayne) in your members.