James 4:1

Tree of Life Version

Where do quarrels and conflicts among you come from? Don’t they come from this, namely your passions that battle within your body parts?

Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable—who can know it?

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and slander.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks lies he is just being himself—for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 7:23

but I see a different law in my body parts, battling against the law of my mind and bringing me into bondage under the law of sin which is in my body parts.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions that came through the Torah were working in our body parts to bear fruit for death.

Romans 8:7

For the mindset of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it does not submit itself to the law of God—for it cannot.

Galatians 5:17

For the flesh sets its desire against the Ruach, but the Ruach sets its desire against the flesh—for these are in opposition to one another, so that you cannot do what you want.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, put to death what is earthly in you—sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed—for that is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they produce quarrels.

Titus 3:3

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about Torah, for they are unprofitable and useless.

James 1:14

But each one is tempted when he is dragged away and enticed by his own desire.

James 4:3

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives so you may spend it on your passions.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be shaped by the cravings you had formerly in your ignorance.

1 Peter 2:11

Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.

2 Peter 2:18

For by mouthing grandiosities that amount to nothing, they entice in sensual fleshly passions those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

2 Peter 3:3

First of all, understand that in the last days, scoffers will come scoffing, following after their own desires