James 4:1
Where do quarrels and disputes among you come from? Do they not come from your desires that fight among your members?
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Jeremiah 17:9The heart is more deceitful than anything else. It is sick; who can understand it? 1
Mark 7:21For from within a person, out of the heart, proceed evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Romans 8:7The mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God's law, nor is it able to do so.
Colossians 3:5Put to death, then, the members that are on earth—sexual immorality, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
Titus 3:3For once we ourselves were thoughtless and disobedient. We were led astray and enslaved by various passions and pleasures. We lived in evil and envy. We were detestable and hated one another.
Matthew Henry on James 4:1
In this chapter we are directed to consider, I. Some causes of contention, besides those mentioned in the foregoing chapter, and to watch against them, ver. 1-5 . II. We are taught to abandon the friendship of this world, so as to submit and subject ourselves entirely to God, ver. 4-10 . III. All detraction and rash judgment of others are to be carefully avoided, ver. 11, 12 . IV. We must preserve a constant regard, and pay the utmost deference to the disposals of divine Providence, ver. 13, to the end . Read the whole commentary →