James 1:15
Such desires lead to sin, and sin, when it's fully developed, causes death.
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14Temptations come from our own evil desires that lead us astray and entrap us.
16My dear friends, don't be deceived.
Cross References
Genesis 2:17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because the day you eat from it you are certain to die.”
Genesis 3:17He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.
Job 15:35They plan trouble and produce evil, giving birth to deception.”
Psalms 9:17The wicked depart, going to the grave—all nations who turn their backs on God.
Micah 2:1How disastrous it will be for those who devise evil plans as they lie awake at night. They get up in the morning to carry them out, because they have the power to do just that.
Matthew 26:48The betrayer had arranged to give them a signal: “The one that I kiss, that's him—arrest him,” he'd told them.
Matthew Henry on James 1:14-19
Procedure and Results of Sin. ( a. d. 61.) 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no… Read the whole commentary →