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 heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

Come they

But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.

“The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

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

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

obedient children, do not

be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.

Lusts

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

In

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to

immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

General references

And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.

But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.