James 4:1

Good News Translation

Where do all the fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your desires for pleasure, which are constantly fighting within you.

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

“Who can understand the human heart? There is nothing else so deceitful; it is too sick to be healed.

Matthew 15:19

For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.

John 8:44

You are the children of your father, the Devil, and you want to follow your father's desires. From the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.

Romans 7:23

But I see a different law at work in my body—a law that fights against the law which my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin which is at work in my body.

Romans 7:5

For when we lived according to our human nature, the sinful desires stirred up by the Law were at work in our bodies, and all we did ended in death.

Romans 8:7

And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God's law, and in fact they cannot obey it.

Galatians 5:17

For what our human nature wants is opposed to what the Spirit wants, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants. These two are enemies, and this means that you cannot do what you want to do.

Colossians 3:5

You must put to death, then, the earthly desires at work in you, such as sexual immorality, indecency, lust, evil passions, and greed (for greed is a form of idolatry).

2 Timothy 2:23

But keep away from foolish and ignorant arguments; you know that they end up in quarrels.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.

Titus 3:9

But avoid stupid arguments, long lists of ancestors, quarrels, and fights about the Law. They are useless and worthless.

James 1:14

But we are tempted when we are drawn away and trapped by our own evil desires.

James 4:3

And when you ask, you do not receive it, because your motives are bad; you ask for things to use for your own pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

Be obedient to God, and do not allow your lives to be shaped by those desires you had when you were still ignorant.

1 Peter 2:11

I appeal to you, my friends, as strangers and refugees in this world! Do not give in to bodily passions, which are always at war against the soul.

2 Peter 2:18

They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.

2 Peter 3:3

First of all, you must understand that in the last days some people will appear whose lives are controlled by their own lusts. They will make fun of you