James 4:1

Revised Version 1885

Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

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

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, the which is idolatry;

2 Timothy 2:23

But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.

Titus 3:3

For we also were aforetime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Titus 3:9

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

James 1:14

but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,