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
Come they
Lusts
General references
Bible References
Whence
James 3:14
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not against the truth.
Come they
James 1:14
But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his desires, and enticed;
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:
Mark 7:21
for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications,
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of him [that lies].
Romans 8:7
Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,
Titus 3:3
For we formerly were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, and hating one another;
1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires of your former ignorance,
1 Peter 2:11
BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,
1 Peter 4:2
that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers shall come with scoffing walking after their inordinate desires,
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
Jude 1:16
These are complainers, censorious, walking after their inordinate desires, and their mouth speaks proud words, showing admiration of persons for the sake of gain.
Lusts
James 4:3
you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.
In
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,
General references
Mark 7:20
But he said, that which comes out of the man, this defiles him;
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, see that you be not consumed one by another.