James 4:1
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
BSB
Parallel translations (2) ▾
ASV
Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
KJV
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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19 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| Πόθεν | Pothen | From where | G4159 → |
| πόλεμοι | polemoi | [come] disputes | G4171 → |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → |
| πόθεν | pothen | from where | G4159 → |
| μάχαι | machai | quarrels | G3163 → |
| ἐν | en | among | G1722 → |
| ὑμῖν; | humin | you? | G4771 → |
| οὐκ | ouk | Surely | G3756 → |
| ἐντεῦθεν, | enteuthen | from there, | G1782 → |
| ἐκ | ek | out of | G1537 → |
| τῶν | tōn | the | G3588 → |
| ἡδονῶν | hēdonōn | passions | G2237 → |
| ὑμῶν | humōn | of you | G4771 → |
| τῶν | tōn | those | G3588 → |
| στρατευομένων | strateuomenōn | warring | G4754 → |
| ἐν | en | in | G1722 → |
| τοῖς | tois | the | G3588 → |
| μέλεσιν | melesin | members | G3196 → |
| ὑμῶν; | humōn | of you? | G4771 → |
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