James 4:1

New Messianic Version Bible

From from what place [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

Cross References

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit [Ruach], and the Spirit [Ruach] against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you2f cannot do the things that you2f would.

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 8:7

Because the carnal (of the flesh, sensual) mind [is] hatred (being an enemy) against God-The Father: for it is not subject to the law of God-The Father, neither indeed can be.

James 1:14

But every man is tried or tested, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Jeremiah 17:9

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

1 Peter 1:14

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

Colossians 3:5

Mortify (put to death; remove the life of) therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate (unrestrained; immoderate) affection, evil concupiscence (strong lust; passion), and covetousness, which is idolatry:

2 Peter 3:3

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

James 4:3

You2f ask, and receive not, because you2f ask amiss, that you2f may consume [it] upon your lusts.

2 Peter 2:18

For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving different lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.

Titus 3:9

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

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Matthew 15:19

“Because the defiled heart brings forth deceitfulness, murder, adulteries, robberies, the witness of liars and curses”.

John 8:44

You2f are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father you2f will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no tin him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

2 Timothy 2:23

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.