James 4:1

A Conservative Version

From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?

Cross References

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit is against the flesh. For these are hostile to each other, so that whatever these things are ye may want, ye may not do.

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.

Romans 8:7

Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.

James 1:14

But each man is tempted by his own lust, being drawn away and enticed.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

1 Peter 1:14

As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

2 Peter 3:3

Knowing this first, that there will come at the end of the days, scoffers, proceeding according to their own desires,

James 4:3

Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,

Titus 3:3

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and contentions, and legal fightings, for they are useless and vain.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, FALSE witnessings, revilings.

John 8:44

Ye are from the father, the devil, and ye want to do the desires of your father. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his

2 Timothy 2:23

But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.