James 1:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

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  • Eph 4:22 : 22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
  • Heb 3:13 : 13 But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures, 22 The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
  • Matt 15:18 : 18 But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.
  • Jas 4:1-2 : 1 What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies? 2 You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.
  • Rom 7:13 : 13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.
  • Rom 7:11 : 11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
  • Matt 15:20 : 20 These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.
  • Hos 13:9 : 9 I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.
  • Josh 7:21-24 : 21 When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it. 22 So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it. 23 And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord. 24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-3 : 2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?
  • 1 Kgs 21:2-4 : 2 And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money. 3 But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers. 4 So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.
  • Job 31:9 : 9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;
  • Job 31:27 : 27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

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  • Jas 1:15-16
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    15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

    16 Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.

  • Jas 1:12-13
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    12 There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

    13 Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:

  • Jas 4:1-3
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    1 What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

    2 You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.

    3 You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

  • 1 Cor 10:13
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    13 You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

  • Jas 1:2
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    2 Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;

  • Matt 4:1
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    1 Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.

  • 2 Pet 2:18-19
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    18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

    19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

  • Jas 1:18-19
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    18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

    19 You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

  • Heb 2:18
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    18 For having been put to the test himself, he is able to give help to others when they are tested.

  • Prov 1:10
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    10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

  • Jas 3:15
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    15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

  • Prov 18:1
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    1 He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.

  • Jas 4:5
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    5 Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

  • Prov 16:29
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    29 A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5 Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

  • 1 Cor 6:18
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    18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

  • Matt 5:28
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    28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

  • Rom 1:24
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    24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

  • 1 Pet 1:6
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    6 You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

  • Eph 4:22
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    22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

  • Jas 4:7
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    7 For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

  • Rom 7:7-8
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    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

    8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

  • Prov 6:25-26
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    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

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    14 They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

  • Ps 78:18
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    18 Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9 And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4 Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

  • Jas 1:21-22
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    21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

    22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

  • Gal 5:19
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    19 Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

  • Gal 6:1
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    1 Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.

  • 1 Cor 10:6
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    6 Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.

  • 2 Pet 1:4
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    4 And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

  • Gen 4:7
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    7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

  • Rom 7:11
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    11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

  • Gal 5:8
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    8 This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.

  • Jas 1:5
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    5 But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6 For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,