James 1:14

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

You are tempted by the evil things you want. Your own desire leads you away and traps you.

Cross References

Ephesians 4:22

You were taught to leave your old self. This means that you must stop living the evil way you lived before. That old self gets worse and worse, because people are fooled by the evil they want to do.

Matthew 15:18

But the bad things people say with their mouth come from the way they think. And that’s what can make people wrong.

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage each other every day, while you still have something called “today.” Help each other so that none of you will be fooled by sin and become too hard to change.

Isaiah 44:20

Someone like that is deceived. They don’t know what they are doing. They cannot save themselves, and they will not admit, “This statue I am holding is a lie!”

Romans 7:13

Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No, it was sin that used the good command to bring me death. This shows how terrible sin really is. It can use a good command to produce a result that shows sin at its very worst.

Proverbs 4:23

Above all, be careful what you think because your thoughts control your life.

Matthew 5:28

But I tell you that if a man looks at a woman and wants to sin sexually with her, he has already committed that sin with her in his mind.

Romans 7:11

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command to make me die.

Job 31:27

I was never foolish enough to worship the sun and the moon.

Job 31:9

“If I have desired another woman or waited at my neighbor’s door to sin with his wife,

Matthew 15:20

These are the things that make people wrong. Eating without washing their hands will never make people unacceptable to God.”

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled these sacrifices, and it pleased him. The Lord said to himself, “I will never again curse the earth as a way to punish people. People are evil from the time they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

Hosea 13:9

“Israel, I helped you, but you turned against me. So now I will destroy you.

Genesis 3:6

The woman could see that the tree was beautiful and the fruit looked so good to eat. She also liked the idea that it would make her wise. So she took some of the fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave him some of the fruit, and he ate it.

2 Samuel 11:4

David sent messengers to go and bring Bathsheba to him. She had just purified herself after her monthly time of bleeding. She went to David, he had sexual relations with her, and then she went back to her house.

Matthew 4:1

Then the Spirit led Jesus into the desert. He was taken there to be tempted by the devil.

James 1:13

Whenever you feel tempted to do something bad, you should not say, “God is tempting me.” Evil cannot tempt God, and God himself does not tempt anyone.

James 1:15

Your desire grows inside you until it results in sin. Then the sin grows bigger and bigger and finally ends in death.