James 1:14
Modern Translations
New International Version
but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.

New Living Translation
Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.

English Standard Version
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Berean Study Bible
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

New American Standard Bible
But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

NASB 1995
But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

NASB 1977
But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

Amplified Bible
But each one is tempted when he is dragged away, enticed and baited [to commit sin] by his own [worldly] desire (lust, passion).

Christian Standard Bible
But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires.

Contemporary English Version
We are tempted by our own desires that drag us off and trap us.

Good News Translation
But we are tempted when we are drawn away and trapped by our own evil desires.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Everyone is tempted by his own desires as they lure him away and trap him.

International Standard Version
Instead, each person is tempted by his own desire, being lured and trapped by it.

NET Bible
But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

New King James Version
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.

King James 2000 Bible
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

New Heart English Bible
But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

World English Bible
But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

American King James Version
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

American Standard Version
but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

A Faithful Version
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away and is enticed by his own lust.

Darby Bible Translation
But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;

English Revised Version
but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Webster's Bible Translation
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away by his owne concupiscence, and is entised.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But euery man is tempted, when he is drawen away, & entised of his owne concupiscence.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But euery ma is tepted, drawne awaye, & entysed of his awne cocupiscece.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
But every ma is tepted drawne awaye and entysed of his awne concupiscece.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
but each one is tempted, being led away and enticed by his own desires;

Berean Literal Bible
But a man is tempted, being drawn away and being enticed by the own desire.

Young's Literal Translation
and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

Smith's Literal Translation
And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed.

Literal Emphasis Translation
However a man is tempted by his own passionate urge, being drawn out and being enticed;

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But each man is tempted from his own desire, and he lusts and he is seduced.

Lamsa Bible
But every man is tempted by his own lust; and he covets and is enticed.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desire, and is deluded.

Godbey New Testament
but each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out, and enticed.

Haweis New Testament
but every person is tempted, when by his own peculiar passion he is born away, and ensnared.

Mace New Testament
a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,

Weymouth New Testament
But when a man is tempted, it is his own passions that carry him away and serve as a bait.

Worrell New Testament
But each one is tempted, when by his own desire he is drawn away and enticed.

Worsley New Testament
But every man is tempted, when drawn aside and insnared by his own vehement desire.
















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