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 ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Come they

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

and upon Cain, and on his offering, he did not look. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Ye are of the devil, as your father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions,

For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.

Lusts

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume it in your pleasures.

In

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

General references

And he said, That which goes forth out of the man, that defiles the man.

but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.