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

Come they

James 1:14
But each one is tempted when by his own lust he is led away and enticed;
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, blasphemies.
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, fornications,
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the Devil, and what your father desireth ye are ready to do. He was a murderer from the beginning; and he abideth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is puffed up with pride, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, from which cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, going astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
1 Peter 1:14
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I exhort you, as sojourners and strangers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Peter 4:2
that ye may no longer live the remaining time in the flesh after the lusts of men, but after the will of God.
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking great swelling words of vanity, they allure in the lusts of the flesh, by dissolute ways, such as were in some measure escaping from those who live in error;
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that there will come in the last days open scoffers following their own lusts,
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complaining of their lot, walking according to their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words; admiring mens persons, for the sake of profit.

Lusts

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

In

Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh hath desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these oppose one another, that ye may not do the things that ye would.
Colossians 3:5
Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

General references

Mark 7:20
And he said, That which cometh out of a man, that defileth a man.
Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour one another, beware lest ye be consumed by one another.