James 4:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

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  • Rom 7:23 : 23 and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that `is' in my members.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
  • Gal 5:17 : 17 for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;
  • Jas 1:14 : 14 and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,
  • Jas 4:3 : 3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.
  • 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world, 17 and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;
  • Titus 3:9 : 9 and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.
  • 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh; 3 for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh -- lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error,
  • Gen 4:5-8 : 5 and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen. 6 And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen? 7 Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.' 8 And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, ``Let us go into the field;'' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 Crooked `is' the heart above all things, And it `is' incurable -- who doth know it?
  • Mark 7:21-23 : 21 for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, 22 thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness; 23 all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.'
  • John 8:44 : 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
  • 1 Tim 6:4-9 : 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings, 5 wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such; 6 but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment; 7 for nothing did we bring into the world -- `it is' manifest that we are able to carry nothing out; 8 but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves; 9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, 10 for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
  • Jas 3:14-18 : 14 and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; 15 this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, 16 for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter; 17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: -- 18 and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.
  • Jude 1:16-18 : 16 These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit; 17 and ye, beloved, remember ye the sayings spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18 that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,
  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

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    2 ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

    3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.

    4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

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  • Jas 1:14-15
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    14 and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

    15 afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

  • Jas 3:14-17
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    14 and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

    15 this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

    16 for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;

    17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16 And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

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  • 1 Cor 3:3-4
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    3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

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  • Mark 7:21-23
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    21 for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

    22 thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

    23 all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.'

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16 because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

  • Matt 15:19
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    19 for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

  • Prov 17:14
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    14 The beginning of contention `is' a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7 Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

    8 but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!

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    5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

  • 2 Cor 7:5
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    5 for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without `are' fightings, within -- fears;

  • Jas 4:16
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    16 and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

  • 1 Pet 2:11
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    11 Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

  • Col 3:5
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    5 Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

  • Gal 5:19
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    19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

  • 2 Tim 2:23
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    23 and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

  • Jas 5:5
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    5 ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

  • 2 Cor 12:20
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    20 for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

  • 1 Cor 14:36
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    36 From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?

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    7 be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

  • Jer 4:18
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    18 Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This `is' thy vexation, for `it is' bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.

  • Jas 4:13
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    13 Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

  • Rom 7:23
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    23 and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that `is' in my members.

  • Heb 12:4
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    4 Not yet unto blood did ye resist -- with the sin striving;

  • Gal 5:8
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    8 the obedience `is' not of him who is calling you!

  • Jas 2:4
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    4 ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

  • Jas 3:10
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    10 out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

  • Jas 1:20
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    20 for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;

  • Rom 6:12
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    12 Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

  • Jude 1:16
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    16 These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

  • Jas 5:9
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    9 murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

  • 1 Pet 4:1
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    1 Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

  • 1 Cor 1:11
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    11 for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;