James 4:1

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Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

John 8:44

You are of your father, the devil. And you will carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own self. For he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

But I perceive another law within my body, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me with the law of sin which is in my body.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.

Romans 8:7

And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And since these are against one another, you may not do whatever you want.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,

2 Timothy 2:23

But avoid foolish and undisciplined questions, for you know that these produce strife.

Titus 3:3

For, in times past, we ourselves were also unwise, unbelieving, erring, servants of various desires and pleasures, acting with malice and envy, being hateful and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, as well as arguments against the law. For these are useless and empty.

James 1:14

Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away.

James 4:3

You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

1 Peter 1:14

Be like sons of obedience, not conforming to the desires of your former ignorance,

1 Peter 2:11

Most beloved, I beg you, as new arrivals and sojourners, to abstain from carnal desires, which battle against the soul.

2 Peter 2:18

For, speaking with the arrogance of vanity, they lure, by the desires of fleshly pleasures, those who are fleeing to some extent, who are being turned from error,

2 Peter 3:3

Know this first: that in the last days there will arrive deceitful mockers, walking according to their own desires,