The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable #– #who can understand it?
James 4:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition WHAT LEADS to strife (discord and feuds) and how do conflicts (quarrels and fightings) originate among you? Do they not arise from your sensual desires that are ever warring in your bodily members? American Standard Version (1901) Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? Common English Bible What is the source of conflict among you? What is the source of your disputes? Don’t they come from your cravings that are at war in your own lives? Catholic Public Domain Version Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? |
The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable #– #who can understand it?
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.
You are of 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 tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
but I see a different law in the parts of my body, , waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us , to bear fruit for death.
The mindset of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit to God’s law. Indeed, it is unable to do so.
For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, because you know that they breed quarrels.
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, because they are unprofitable and worthless.
But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.
For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
Above all, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days scoffing and following their own evil desires,