Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Whence

Lusts

General references

Bible References

Whence

James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth.

Come they

James 1:14
but each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out, and enticed.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
Mark 7:21
For within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, fornications, murders,
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you wish to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there was no truth in him. When he may speak a lie, he speaks of his own: because he is a liar, and the father of the same.
Romans 8:7
Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be.
1 Timothy 6:4
he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings,
Titus 3:3
For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;
1 Peter 1:14
As children of obedience, not being fashioned after your former lusts in ignorance:
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;
1 Peter 4:2
that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion;
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that at the last days mockers will come forth in scoffing, walking according to their own lusts,
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him:
Jude 1:16
These are querulous grumblers, going forth according to their own lusts; and their mouth speaking swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of gain.

Lusts

James 4:3
you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.

In

Romans 7:5
For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Galatians 5:17
For carnality wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit against carnality; for these are antagonistical to one another; so that you may not do the things which you may wish.
Colossians 3:5
Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

General references

Mark 7:20
And He said, Everything proceeding out from the man, that defiles the man.
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you may not be consumed one of another.