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They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/james/4-1.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/james/4-1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/james/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/james/1.htm">James</a> > <a href="/gntd/james/4.htm">Chapter 4</a> > Verse 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../james/3-18.htm" title="James 3:18">◄</a> James 4:1 <a href="../james/4-2.htm" title="James 4:2">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/james/4.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/james/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/james/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/james/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Why do you fight and argue with each other? Isn't it because you are full of selfish desires that fight to control your body? <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/james/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />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?<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/james/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?</p><p class="hdg">whence.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/3-14.htm">James 3:14-18</a> But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. . . . </p><p class="hdg">fightings.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/1-14.htm">James 1:14</a> But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/4-5.htm">Genesis 4:5-8</a> But to Cain and his offerings he had no respect: and Cain was exceeding angry, and his countenance fell. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/17-9.htm">Jeremiah 17:9</a> The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/15-19.htm">Matthew 15:19</a> For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/7-21.htm">Mark 7:21-23</a> For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/8-44.htm">John 8:44</a> You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/8-7.htm">Romans 8:7</a> Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4-10</a> He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../titus/3-3.htm">Titus 3:3</a> For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/1-14.htm">1 Peter 1:14</a> As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/2-11.htm">1 Peter 2:11</a> Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/4-2.htm">1 Peter 4:2,3</a> That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_peter/2-18.htm">2 Peter 2:18</a> For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_peter/3-3.htm">2 Peter 3:3</a> Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/2-15.htm">1 John 2:15-17</a> Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jude/1-16.htm">Jude 1:16-18</a> These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake. . . . </p><p class="hdg">lusts.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/4-3.htm">James 4:3</a> You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.</p><p class="hdg">in.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/7-5.htm">Romans 7:5,23</a> For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../galatians/5-17.htm">Galatians 5:17</a> For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5</a> Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/james/4.htm">Warning against Pride</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl">From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?</span> <span class="reftext">2</span>You covet, and have not: you kill and envy and cannot obtain. You contend and war, and you have not: because you ask not.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/7-23.htm">Romans 7:23</a></span><br />But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_timothy/2-23.htm">2 Timothy 2:23</a></span><br />And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../titus/3-9.htm">Titus 3:9</a></span><br />But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_peter/2-11.htm">1 Peter 2:11</a></span><br />Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hebrews/11-34.htm">Battle</a> <a href="/james/3-3.htm">Bodies</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-26.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/colossians/2-19.htm">Causes</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/7-5.htm">Conflicts</a> <a href="/titus/3-9.htm">Contentions</a> <a href="/titus/3-3.htm">Cravings</a> <a href="/james/3-4.htm">Desires</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-4.htm">Fighting</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/7-5.htm">Fightings</a> <a href="/titus/3-9.htm">Fights</a> <a href="/hebrews/13-6.htm">Hence</a> <a href="/titus/3-3.htm">Lusts</a> <a href="/james/3-6.htm">Members</a> <a href="/james/1-14.htm">Passions</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-25.htm">Pleasures</a> <a href="/titus/3-9.htm">Quarrels</a> <a href="/acts/27-42.htm">Soldiers</a> <a href="/james/1-17.htm">Source</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/2-13.htm">Thence</a> <a href="/james/1-2.htm">Various</a> <a href="/1_timothy/1-18.htm">Wage</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-34.htm">War</a> <a href="/luke/21-9.htm">Wars</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-19.htm">Whence</a> <a href="/james/3-6.htm">Within</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/revelation/9-7.htm">Battle</a> <a href="/revelation/11-8.htm">Bodies</a> <a href="/james/4-7.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-8.htm">Causes</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/7-5.htm">Conflicts</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-44.htm">Contentions</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-14.htm">Cravings</a> <a href="/james/4-2.htm">Desires</a> <a href="/james/4-2.htm">Fighting</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-44.htm">Fightings</a> <a href="/exodus/14-25.htm">Fights</a> <a href="/genesis/15-2.htm">Hence</a> <a href="/james/4-3.htm">Lusts</a> <a href="/genesis/36-6.htm">Members</a> <a href="/james/4-3.htm">Passions</a> <a href="/james/4-3.htm">Pleasures</a> <a href="/proverbs/13-10.htm">Quarrels</a> <a href="/numbers/31-21.htm">Soldiers</a> <a href="/genesis/26-35.htm">Source</a> <a href="/genesis/2-10.htm">Thence</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-6.htm">Various</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-11.htm">Wage</a> <a href="/james/4-2.htm">War</a> <a href="/numbers/21-14.htm">Wars</a> <a href="/revelation/2-5.htm">Whence</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-11.htm">Within</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/james/4-1.htm">James 4:1 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/james/4-1.htm">James 4:1 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/james/4-1.htm">James 4:1 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/james/4-1.htm">James 4:1 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/james/4-1.htm">James 4:1 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/james/4-1.htm">James 4:1 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/james/4-1.htm">James 4:1 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/james/4-1.htm">James 4:1 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/james/4-1.htm">James 4:1 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: among and battle causes come conflicts desires Don't fights from in is members not of pleasures quarrels source that the they wage war What within you your<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/james/4-1.htm">NT Letters: James 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you (Ja Jas. 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