James 1:14

New Century Version

But people are tempted when their own evil desire leads them away and traps them.

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw that the tree was beautiful, that its fruit was good to eat, and that it would make her wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of the fruit to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.

Genesis 8:21

The Lord was pleased with these sacrifices and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings. Their thoughts are evil even when they are young, but I will never again destroy every living thing on the earth as I did this time.

2 Samuel 11:4

So David sent messengers to bring Bathsheba to him. When she came to him, he had sexual relations with her. (Now Bathsheba had purified herself from her monthly period.) Then she went back to her house.

Job 31:27

so that my heart was pulled away from God. My hand has never offered the sun and moon a kiss of worship.

Job 31:9

“If I have desired another woman or have waited at my neighbor’s door for his wife,

Proverbs 4:23

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

Isaiah 44:20

He doesn’t know what he is doing; his confused mind leads him the wrong way. He cannot save himself or say, “This statue I am holding is a false god.”

Hosea 13:9

“Israel, I will destroy you. Who will be your helper then?

Matthew 15:18

But what people say with their mouths comes from the way they think; these are the things that make people unclean.

Matthew 15:20

These things make people unclean; eating with unwashed hands does not make them unclean.”

Matthew 4:1

Then the Spirit led Jesus into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

Matthew 5:28

But I tell you that if anyone looks at a woman and wants to sin sexually with her, in his mind he has already done that sin with the woman.

Romans 7:11

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command to make me die.

Romans 7:13

Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No! Sin used something that is good to bring death to me. This happened so that I could see what sin is really like; the command was used to show that sin is very evil.

Ephesians 4:22

You were taught to leave your old self—to stop living the evil way you lived before. That old self becomes worse, because people are fooled by the evil things they want to do.

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage each other every day while it is “today.” Help each other so none of you will become hardened because sin has tricked you.

James 1:13

When people are tempted, they should not say, “God is tempting me.” Evil cannot tempt God, and God himself does not tempt anyone.

James 1:15

This desire leads to sin, and then the sin grows and brings death.