James 4:1

Legacy Standard Bible

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

¶“The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can know it?

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false witness, slanders.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, 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 making me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:5

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Romans 8:7

because the mind set on the flesh is at enmity toward God, for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you do not do the things that you want.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, consider the members of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and conflicts about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

James 1:14

But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, not being conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul,

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity, they entice by sensual lusts of the flesh, those who barely escape from the ones who conducted themselves in error,

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,