James 4:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions  that wage war within you?

Cross References

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles  to abstain  from sinful  desires that wage war against the soul.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires  what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in the parts of my body,  , waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.

Romans 8:7

The mindset of the flesh is hostile  to God because it does not submit to God’s law. Indeed, it is unable to do so.

James 1:14

But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable #– #who can understand it?

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children,  do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity,  lust,  evil desire, and greed,  which is idolatry.

2 Peter 3:3

Above all, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days  scoffing and following their own evil desires,

James 4:3

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

2 Peter 2:18

For by uttering boastful, empty words,  they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped  from those who live in error.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish debates,  genealogies,  quarrels,  and disputes about the law, because they are unprofitable and worthless.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh,  the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us  , to bear fruit for death.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies,   slander.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil,   and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer   from the beginning   and does not stand in the truth,   because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,   because he is a liar and the father of lies.

2 Timothy 2:23

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, because you know that they breed quarrels.