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 jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

Come they

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

but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

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

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.

For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

Lusts

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

In

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

General references

And he said, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.