James 4:1

Free Bible Version

Where do the fights and quarrels you're having come from? Aren't they due to the sensual passions that are in conflict within you?

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

The mind is more deceptive than anything else—it's incurably sick! Who can possibly understand it?

Matthew 15:19

For what comes from the mind are evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and blasphemy

John 8:44

Your father is the devil, and you love to follow your father's evil desires. He was a murderer from the beginning. He never stood for the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies he reveals his true character, for he's a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law at work within me that is at war with the law my mind has decided to follow, making me a prisoner of the law of sin that is within me.

Romans 7:5

While we were controlled by old nature, our sinful desires (as revealed by the law) were at work within us and resulted in death.

Romans 8:7

The sinful human mind is hostile to God because it refuses to obey the law of God—in fact it never can,

Galatians 5:17

For the desires of the sinful nature are opposed to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are opposed to the sinful nature. They fight one another, so you don't do what you want to do.

Colossians 3:5

So kill your worldly nature—sexual sin, immorality, lust, evil desires, greedily wanting to have more—this is the worship of idols.

2 Timothy 2:23

Avoid foolish and childish debates, for you know they only lead to fights.

Titus 3:3

For there was a time when we too were foolish and disobedient. We were deceived and slaves to various desires and pleasures. We lived wicked lives full of jealousy, hateful people hating one another.

Titus 3:9

Avoid pointless discussions, and obsessions about ancestry. Don't get into arguments, and avoid fights over the Jewish laws—they're useless and don't help at all.

James 1:14

Temptations come from our own evil desires that lead us astray and entrap us.

James 4:3

You pray, but don't receive anything, because you ask with a wrong motive, wanting to spend what you'd receive on your selfish pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

Live like children who do what they're told. Don't allow yourselves to be shaped by your former sinful desires when you didn't know any better.

1 Peter 2:11

My friends, I'm pleading with you as foreigners and strangers in this world not to give in to physical desires that are in conflict with what is spiritual.

2 Peter 2:18

Inflated with their own nonsense, they appeal to sensual desires, luring back into immorality those who have only just escaped from those who live in error.

2 Peter 3:3

Above all you should know that derisive people will come in the last days, full of mockery and following their own evil desires.