James 4:1

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all, and man himself, who shall know him?

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

Romans 7:23

And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Romans 8:7

Wherefore the thought of the flesh enmity to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, for it cannot be.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

2 Timothy 2:23

And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.

Titus 3:3

For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

James 1:14

And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed.

James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.

2 Peter 3:3

Knowing this first, that in the last of the days shall mockers come for deceiving, going according to their own eager desires,