James 4:1

The Text-Critical English New Testament

Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that wage war among your members?

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false testimony, and slander.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks lies, he speaks from his own character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

but I see another law at work in my members, warring against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that is in my members.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, which were aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit leading to death.

Romans 8:7

The mindset of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God; indeed, it is unable to do so.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is contrary to the flesh. These are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the very things you want to do.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore whatever belongs to your earthly nature: fornication, impurity, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

Have nothing to do with foolish and ignorant controversies, knowing that they breed quarrels.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, and enslaved to various lusts and pleasures. Living in wickedness and envy, we were loathsome and hated one another.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and futile.

James 1:14

But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires.

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

As children of obedience, do not conform yourselves to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul,

2 Peter 2:18

For they speak bombastic words of nonsense, and with sensual desires of the flesh they entice people who have truly escaped from others who live in error.

2 Peter 3:3

First of all, you must understand that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts.