From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Treasury of Scripture whence. James 3:14-18 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth... fightings. or, brawlings. come they. James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Genesis 4:5-8 But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell... Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders... John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning... Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 1 Timothy 6:4-10 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings... Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy... 1 Peter 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 1 Peter 4:2,3 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God... 2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness... 2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him... Jude 1:16-18 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaks great swelling words... lusts. or, pleasures. See on ver. James 4:3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts. in. Romans 7:5,23 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death... Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other... Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence...
Context Warning Against Pride
1From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not. 3You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your lusts. 4You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy? 6But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
Douay-Rheims Bible
From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?
Darby Bible Translation
Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?
King James Bible
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Young's Literal Translation
Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
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