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 tell lies against the truth.

Come they

But each one is tempted [when he] is dragged away and enticed by his own desires.

but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell.

The heart [is] deceitful more than anything else, and it [is] disastrous. Who can understand it?

For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.

For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.

because the mindset of the flesh [is] enmity toward God, for [it is] not subjected to the law of God, for [it is] not able [to do so],

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but having a morbid interest concerning controversies and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires [you used to conform to] in your ignorance,

Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.

{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,

above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own 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 [people] are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their desires, and their mouths speaking pompous [words], {showing partiality to gain an advantage}.

Lusts

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.

In

For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these [things].

Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,

General references

And he said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles a person.

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