James 4:1

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?

Cross References

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me in the law of sin, that is in my members.

Romans 8:7

Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be.

James 1:14

But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is perverse above all things and unsearchable. Who can know it?

1 Peter 1:14

As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance:

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

2 Peter 3:3

Knowing this first, that in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

James 4:3

You ask, and receive not; because you ask amiss: that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

2 Peter 2:18

For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness, those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

2 Timothy 2:23

And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes.