James 4:1

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Where do wars and controversies among you come from? Do they not come from this, even from your lusts that war in your members?

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not remain in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the emotions of sins, which were aroused by the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit leading to death.

Romans 8:7

Because the carnal mind is at enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary to one another: so that you cannot do the things that you would.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, unsanctified passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry,

2 Timothy 2:23

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they produce disagreements.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were at one time foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and quarrels, and controversies about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

James 1:14

But each person is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

James 4:3

You ask, and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, that you may consume it upon your lusts.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I appeal to you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much licentiousness, those who had entirely escaped from those who live in error.

2 Peter 3:3

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,