James 4:1
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don't they come from the passions at war within you?
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whence.

James 3:14-18
But if you harbor in your hearts bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, do not boast in it or deny the truth. . . .

fightings.

James 1:14
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

Genesis 4:5-8
but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell. . . .

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure--who can understand it?

Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

Mark 7:21-23
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, . . .

John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God's Law, nor can it do so.

1 Timothy 6:4-10
he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions, . . .

Titus 3:3
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

1 Peter 4:2, 3
Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God. . . .

2 Peter 2:18
With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

2 Peter 3:3
First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. . . .

Jude 1:16-18
These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage. . . .

lusts.

James 4:3
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

in.

Romans 7:5, 23
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the Law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death. . . .

Galatians 5:17
For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to one another, so that you do not do what you want.

Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage 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?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don't they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

International Standard Version
Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

NET Bible
Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
From where is war and contention among you? Is it not from the lusts which war in your members?
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