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 envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Come they

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

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

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

Lusts

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

In

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

For the flesh lusteth 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.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

General references

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.