James 4:1 Cross References - Anderson

¹ Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

¹⁹ For from the heart come evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, lewd actions, thefts, false testimonies, impious words.

²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the purposes which are evil: adulteries, lewd actions, murders, ²² thefts, schemes for extortion, wicked deeds, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, calumny, haughtiness, impiety. ²³ All these evil things come forth from within, and defile the man.

⁴⁴ You are of your father, the devil; and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the be ginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks that which is false, he speaks from what is his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were excited by the law, were active in our members, so as to bring forth fruit to death:

²³ but I perceive another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.

⁷ Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.

¹⁷ For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would.

⁵ Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

⁴ he is mad with conceit, knowing nothing, but has a morbid fondness for questions and contentions about words, out of which come envy, strife, railing, evil suspicions, ⁵ and wranglings, on the part of men who are corrupt in mind, and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a source of gain. From such withdraw yourself. ⁶ But godliness, with a contented disposition, is great gain. ⁷ For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we can carry nothing out. ⁸ And having food and raiment, with these let us be content. ⁹ But those who will be rich fail into temptation and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which drown men in destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil; through the desire of which, some have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

³ For we ourselves also were formerly foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one an other.

⁹ But foolish questions and genealogies and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

¹⁴ But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desire, and is deluded.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac. ¹⁶ For where envy and strife are, there is commotion, and every evil work. ¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And those who cultivate peace, sow for themselves a harvest of righteousness in peace.

³ You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.

¹⁴ as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,

² so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God. ³ For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries.

¹⁸ For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

³ knowing this first, that there will come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷ And the world and its desire passes away: but he that does the will of God, abides forever.

¹⁶ These are murmurers, fault-finders, walking ac cording to their own desires; and their mouth speaks boastful words, while they admire persons for the sake of gain. ¹⁷ But do you, beloved, remember the words that were formerly spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; ¹⁸ that they said to you, There should come, in the last days, scoffers walking according to their own ungodly desires.