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 ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.

Come they

James 1:14
But each one is tempted, when they are drawn away of their own lust and enticed.
Genesis 4:5
but he did not look upon Cain and his present. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who shall know it?
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders,
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father ye desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
Romans 8:7
because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but is driven mad concerning questions and controversy of words, of which comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
1 Peter 1:14
as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance,
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from the carnal desires which war against the soul
1 Peter 4:2
so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking arrogant words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from those who converse in error,
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts
1 John 2:15
Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own desires; and their mouth speaks arrogant things, admiring persons to take advantage.

Lusts

James 4:3
Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your pleasures.

In

Romans 7:5
For while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

General references

Mark 7:20
For he had said that it is what comes out of the man that defiles the man.
Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye are not consumed one of another.