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

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

Come they

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.

Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable -- who doth know it?

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

Lusts

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.

In

for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

General references

And he said -- 'That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.