James 4:1
James · New Testament · Chapter 4
“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?”James 4:1
What Does James 4:1 Mean?
James 4:1 is found in the book of James, chapter 4, verse 1 of the New Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to James 4:1 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
1 Peter 2:11“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”Galatians 5:17“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”Romans 7:23“But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”James 1:14“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”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.”Matthew 24:12“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”1 John 2:15“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.”Jeremiah 17:9“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”Jude 1:16“These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.”Colossians 3:5“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”1 Peter 1:14“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:”Mark 7:21“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,”James 3:14“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”James 4:3“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”2 Peter 3:3“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,”Genesis 4:5“But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.”Titus 3:3“For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.”Titus 3:9“But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”2 Peter 2:18“For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.”Amos 4:12“Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.”
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