James 4:1

English Majority Text Version

From where come wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

But I see a different law in my members, waging war against the law of my mind, and capturing me by the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

Romans 8:7

Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these things oppose each other, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they bring forth fights.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish disputes and genealogies, and strifes and legal fights; for they are unprofitable and futile.

James 1:14

But each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn away and being seduced by them.

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend it in gratifying your lusts.

1 Peter 1:14

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves after the former lusts, as you did in your ignorance;

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I implore you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from the lusts of the flesh which war against the soul;

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak haughty words of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first: that mockers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,