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 jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Come they

James 1:14
But each one is tempted, when by his own desire he is drawn away and enticed.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies:
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the Devil; and the desires of your father ye wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because he is a liar, and the father of it.
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither, indeed, can it be;
1 Timothy 6:4
he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Titus 3:3
For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving manifold desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
1 Peter 1:14
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance;
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly desires, which, indeed, war against the soul;
1 Peter 4:2
that ye no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh to the desires of men, but to the will of God.
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice, in desires of the flesh, by their lasciviousness, those just escaping from those who live in error;
2 Peter 3:3
Knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers with scoffing, walking after their own desires,
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking according to their own desires; and their mouth speaks great swelling words; admiring men's persons, for the sake of profit.

Lusts

James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.

In

Romans 7:5
For, when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were working in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh covets against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to the other, that ye may not do the things which ye wish.
Colossians 3:5
Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;

General references

Mark 7:20
And He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
Galatians 5:15
But, if ye bite and devour one another, beware, lest ye be consumed by one another.