James 4:1

The Scriptures 1998

Where do fightings and strivings come from among you? Do they not come from your pleasures that battle in your members?

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

Matthew 15:19

“For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders.

John 8:44

“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Romans 7:23

but I see another law in my members, battling against the Torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, through the Torah, were working in our members to bear fruit to death.

Romans 8:7

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Elohim, for it does not subject itself to the Torah of Elohim, neither indeed is it able,

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you desire to do.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: whoring, uncleanness, passion, evil desire and greed of gain, which is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

But refuse foolish and stupid questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

But keep away from foolish questions, and genealogies, and strife and quarrels about the Torah, for they are unprofitable and useless.

James 1:14

But each one is enticed when he is drawn away by his own desires and trapped.

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive, because you ask evilly, in order to spend it on your pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance,

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved ones, I appeal to you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which battle against the life,

2 Peter 2:18

For speaking arrogant nonsense, they entice – through the lusts of the flesh, through indecencies – the ones who have indeed escaped from those living in delusion,

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first: that mockers shall come in the last days with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,