James 4:1

New American Standard Bible 2020

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is the source not your pleasures that wage war in your body’s parts?

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

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

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, acts of adultery, other immoral sexual acts, thefts, false testimonies, and slanderous statements.

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 tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in the parts of my body waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin, the law which is in my body’s parts.

Romans 7:5

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were brought to light by the Law, were at work in the parts of our body to bear fruit for death.

Romans 8:7

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile 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 desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, in order to keep you from doing whatever you want.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, treat the parts of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

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

Titus 3:3

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

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are useless 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 the wrong motives, so that you may spend what you request on your pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

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

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.

2 Peter 2:18

For, while speaking out arrogant words of no value they entice by fleshly desires, by indecent behavior, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

2 Peter 3:3

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