The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
James 4:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 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 deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
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 doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the Torah; for they are unprofitable and vain.
But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,