James 4:1

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Summary

James 4:1

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

Whence

James 3:14

Come they

Lusts

James 4:3

In

Romans 7:5

Galatians 5:17

Colossians 3:5

General references

Mark 7:20

Galatians 5:15

Bible References

Whence

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.

Come they

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

but He did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.

The heart is more deceitful than anything else,
and incurable—who can understand it?

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions,

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

First, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, living according to their own desires,

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

These people are discontented grumblers, walking according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.

Lusts

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

In

For when we were in the flesh,

the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us

and bore fruit for death.

For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

General references

Then He said, “What comes out of a person—that defiles him.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.