James 4:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members?

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

More tortuous than anything is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, blasphemy.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.

Romans 8:7

For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God; it does not submit to the law of God, nor can it;

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

Avoid foolish and ignorant debates, for you know that they breed quarrels.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

Avoid foolish arguments, genealogies, rivalries, and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and futile.

James 1:14

Rather, each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

James 4:3

You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.

2 Peter 2:18

For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error.

2 Peter 3:3

Know this first of all, that in the last days scoffers will come [to] scoff, living according to their own desires