James 4:1

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

John 8:44

As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.

Romans 7:23

But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.

Romans 7:5

When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.

Romans 8:7

Because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.

Galatians 5:17

For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature--they are two contrary principles--so that you cannot do what you wish.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

2 Timothy 2:23

Shun foolish and ignorant discussions, for you know that they only breed quarrels;

Titus 3:3

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

Titus 3:9

But have nothing to do with foolish discussions, or with genealogies, or with controversy, or disputes about the Law. They are useless and futile.

James 1:14

A man is in every case tempted by his own passions--allured and enticed by them.

James 4:3

You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose--to spend what you get upon your pleasures.

1 Peter 1:14

Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.

2 Peter 2:18

With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.

2 Peter 3:3

First be assured of this, that, as the age draws to an end, scoffers, led by their own passions,