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Berean Standard Bible

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

James 4:1

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James asks a direct question about conflict in the community. He is writing to believers whose quarrels showed that something was wrong at the level of desires.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

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

World English Bible (WEB)

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

King James Version (KJV)

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

American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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

Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)

¿DE dónde vienen las guerras y los pleitos entre vosotros? ¿No son de vuestras concupiscencias, las cuales combaten en vuestros miembros?

Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)

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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)

¿Qué provoca las guerras y los pleitos entre ustedes? Pues son las pasiones que luchan dentro de ustedes.

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