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 rivalry in your hearts, stop boasting and slandering the truth.

Come they

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

but he did not look favorably upon Cain and his offering.

"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable who can know it?

It is out of the heart that evil thoughts come, as well as murder, adultery, sexual immorality, stealing, false testimony, and slander.

because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.

he is a conceited person and does not understand anything. He has an unhealthy craving for arguments and debates. This produces jealousy, rivalry, slander, evil suspicions,

After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.

As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.

By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us

Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.

These people are complainers and faultfinders, following their own desires. They say arrogant things and flatter people in order to take advantage of them.

Lusts

You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason for your own pleasure.

In

For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death.

For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do.

So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

General references

Then he continued, "It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean,

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not destroyed by each other.