James 1:15
New International Version
Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

New Living Translation
These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.

English Standard Version
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

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

Berean Literal Bible
Then desire having conceived, gives birth to sin; and sin having become fully grown, brings forth death.

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

New King James Version
Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

New American Standard Bible
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it has run its course, brings forth death.

NASB 1995
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

NASB 1977
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully matured, it brings forth death.

Amplified Bible
Then when the illicit desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin has run its course, it gives birth to death.

Christian Standard Bible
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And this desire becomes pregnant and gives birth to sin, but sin, when it has matured, gives birth to death.

Contemporary English Version
Our desires make us sin, and when sin is finished with us, it leaves us dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then desire becomes pregnant and gives birth to sin. When sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

Good News Translation
Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

International Standard Version
When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

Literal Standard Version
afterward the desire having conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin having been perfected, brings forth death.

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

New American Bible
Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death.

NET Bible
Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

New Revised Standard Version
then, when that desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and that sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.

New Heart English Bible
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Weymouth New Testament
Then the passion conceives, and becomes the parent of sin; and sin, when fully matured, gives birth to death.

World English Bible
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

Young's Literal Translation
afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

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Context
Good and Perfect Gifts
14But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. 15Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. 16Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.…

Cross References
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."

Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

2 Samuel 11:4
Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.

Job 15:35
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit."

Psalm 7:14
Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

Proverbs 11:19
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.

Isaiah 33:11
You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.


Treasury of Scripture

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

when.

Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Genesis 4:5-8
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell…

Job 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

sin, when.

Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 3:17-19
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; …

Psalm 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

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James 1
1. James greets the twelve tribes among the nations;
2. exhorts to rejoice in trials and temptations;
5. to ask patience of God;
13. and in our trials not to impute our weakness, or sins, to him,
19. but rather to hearken to the word, to meditate on it, and to do thereafter.
26. Otherwise men may seem, but never be, truly religious.














(15) Then when lust have conceived. . . .--Then come the downward steps of ruin--Lust, having conceived, bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. The image well depicts the repellent subject. The small beginning, from some vain delight or worldly lust and pleasure; next from the vile embrace, as of an harlot--sin, growing in all its rank luxuriance, until it bear and engender, horribly, of itself, its deadly child. The word of parturition is frightful in the sense it would convey, as of some monstrous deformity, a hideous progeny ten-fold more cursed than its begetter.

The one effect of sin, more especially that of the flesh here alluded to, must be Death. The act itself is mortiferous, the result inevitable; just as much so, and as naturally, as the work of poison on the body. There are antidotes for both, but they must be given in time; the door of mercy stands not always open, nor will the "fountain opened . . . for sin and uncleanness" (Zechariah 13:1) flow on for ever. "Because," says the Wisdom of God (Proverbs 1:24-26), "I have called, and ye refused . . . I also will laugh at your calamity." "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23), and their paymaster is the devil.

Verse 15 shows where temptation passes into sin. Ἐπιθυμία, lust, is clearly not in itself "true and proper sin," but it is no less clear that, as our Article IX. says it "hath of itself the nature of sin." With this whole passage we should compare St. Paul's teaching on ἐπιθυμία, ἀμαρτιὰ, and θανατός, in Romans 7:7-11. Ἀποκύειν occurs only here and in ver. 18; translate, gendereth.

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Greek
Then
εἶτα (eita)
Adverb
Strong's 1534: A particle of succession, then, moreover.

[after] desire
ἐπιθυμία (epithymia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1939: Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing.

has conceived,
συλλαβοῦσα (syllabousa)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4815: From sun and lambano; to clasp, i.e. Seize; specially, to conceive; by implication, to aid.

it gives birth to
τίκτει (tiktei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 5088: A strengthened form of a primary teko tek'-o; to produce, literally or figuratively.

sin;
ἁμαρτίαν (hamartian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin.

and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

sin,
ἁμαρτία (hamartia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin.

when it is fully grown,
ἀποτελεσθεῖσα (apotelestheisa)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 658: To complete, accomplish, form fully, perfect, bring to maturity. From apo and teleo; to complete entirely, i.e. Consummate.

gives birth to
ἀποκύει (apokyei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 616: From apo and the base of kuma; to breed forth, i.e. to generate.

death.
θάνατον (thanaton)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2288: Death, physical or spiritual. From thnesko; death.


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