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
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Lusts
General references
Bible References
Whence
James 3:14
If you have bitter jealousy (envy) and greedy ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and lie against the truth.
Come they
James 1:14
Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured).
Genesis 4:5
He did not look with favor on Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his face was downcast (he had a bad attitude).
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?
Matthew 15:19
Evil thoughts come from the heart! Thoughts about murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander come from the heart!
Mark 7:21
It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
John 8:44
You are from your father [Satan] the Devil (slanderer) (false accuser)! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!
Romans 8:7
This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is proud, knows nothing, has a morbid interest in questions and disputes about words, which leads to envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,
Titus 3:3
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
1 Peter 1:14
Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.
1 Peter 4:2
From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.
2 Peter 3:3
Know this first, that in the last days, mockers will come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Jude 1:16
These murmur, complain, and walk after their lusts, they speak arrogantly, flattering people to gain advantage.
Lusts
James 4:3
You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly (with bad motives) that you may spend it on your pleasures.
In
Romans 7:5
When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another that you may not do the things that you would.
Colossians 3:5
Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.
General references
Mark 7:20
That which comes out of the man defiles the man.
Galatians 5:15
But if you continue to bite and devour one another, take care that you do not consume one another.