James 1:15 BSB — MannaFest

James 1:15

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

BSB

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ASV

Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

KJV

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

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Commentary

4 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Then when lust hath conceived,.... A proposal of pleasure or profit being made, agreeable to lust, or the principle of corrupt nature, sinful man is pleased with it; and instead of resisting and rejecting the motion made, he admits of it, and receives it, and cherishes it in his mind; he dallies and plays with it; he dwells upon it in his thoughts, and hides it under his tongue, and in his heart, as a sweet morsel, and forsakes it not, but contrives ways and means how to bring it about; and this is lust's conceiving.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Stop the beginnings of sin therefore, or else all the evils it produces must be wholly charged upon us. The final issue of sin, and how it ends: Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. After sin is brought forth in actual commissions, the finishing of it (as Dr. Manton observes) is its being strengthened by frequent acts and settled into a habit.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Then when lust hath conceived - Compare Job 15:35. The allusion here is obvious. The meaning is, when the desire which we have naturally is quickened, or made to act, the result is that sin is produced. As our desires of good lie in the mind by nature, as our propensities exist as they were created, they cannot be regarded as sin, or treated as such; but when they are indulged, when plans of gratification are formed, when they are developed in actual life, the effect is sin.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἶτα	eita	Then	G1534 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
ἐπιθυμία	epithumia	desire	G1939 →
συλλαβοῦσα	sullabousa	having conceived	G4815 →
τίκτει	tiktei	it gives birth to	G5088 →
ἁμαρτίαν,	hamartian	sin,	G266 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	and	G1161 →
ἁμαρτία	hamartia	sin	G266 →
ἀποτελεσθεῖσα	apotelestheisa	having become fully grown	G658 →
ἀποκύει	apokuei	it brings forth	G616 →
θάνατον.¶	thanaton	death.	G2288 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
leads to
- Romans 6:23
  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Genesis 3:19
  By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:56
  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
- Revelation 21:8
  But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
- 1 Corinthians 15:22
  For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
Through
Psalms 7:14
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
leads to
- Job 15:35
  They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 59:4–5
  No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 33:11
  You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About James

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About James