James 4
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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

whence.

James 3:14-18 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, …

fightings. or, brawlings. come they.

James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Genesis 4:5-8 But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was …

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: …

Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, …

Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, …

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you …

Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject …

1 Timothy 6:4-10 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes …

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …

1 Peter 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the …

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain …

1 Peter 4:2,3 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to …

2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through …

2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, …

1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If …

Jude 1:16-18 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; …

lusts. or, pleasures. See on ver.

James 4:3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume …

in.

Romans 7:5,23 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by …

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the …

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, …

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

ask, and.

James 1:6,7 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is …

Job 27:8-10 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when …

Job 35:12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Psalm 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but …

Psalm 66:18,19 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me…

Proverbs 1:28 Then shall they call on me, but I will not answer; they shall seek …

Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the …

Proverbs 21:13,27 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry …

Isaiah 1:15,16 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …

Jeremiah 11:11,14 Therefore thus said the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on them, …

Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt …

Micah 3:4 Then shall they cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will …

Zechariah 7:13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not …

Matthew 20:22 But Jesus answered and said, You know not what you ask. Are you able …

Mark 10:38 But Jesus said to them, You know not what you ask: can you drink …

1 John 3:22 And whatever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, …

1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any …

ye may.

Luke 15:13,30 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and …

Luke 16:1,2 And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, …

lusts. or, pleasures.

James 4:1 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even …

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

adulterers.

Psalm 50:18 When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been …

Psalm 73:27 For, see, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed …

Isaiah 57:3 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer …

Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; …

Hosea 3:1 Then said the LORD to me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, …

Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation …

Matthew 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there …

the friendship.

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of …

John 15:19,23 If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because …

John 17:14 I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because …

1 John 2:15,16 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If …

enmity.

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your …

Romans 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject …

whosoever.

Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for …

is the.

Psalm 21:8 Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall …

Luke 19:27 But those my enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, …

John 15:23,24 He that hates me hates my Father also…

Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death …

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

the scripture.

John 7:42 Has not the scripture said, That Christ comes of the seed of David, …

John 10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the scripture …

John 19:37 And again another scripture said, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

Romans 9:17 For the scripture said to Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have …

Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen …

The spirit.

Genesis 4:5,6 But to Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was …

Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth…

Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, …

Genesis 26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great …

Genesis 30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied …

Genesis 37:11 And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying.

Numbers 11:29 And Moses said to him, Envy you for my sake? would God that all the …

Psalm 37:1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against …

Psalm 106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

Proverbs 21:10 The soul of the wicked desires evil: his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this …

Isaiah 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah …

Acts 7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but …

Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, …

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …

to envy. or, enviously.

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

God.

Exodus 10:3,4 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said …

Exodus 15:9,10 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the …

Exodus 18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing …

1 Samuel 2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogance come out of …

Job 22:29 When men are cast down, then you shall say, There is lifting up; …

Job 40:10-12 Deck yourself now with majesty and excellency; and array yourself …

Psalm 138:6 Though the LORD be high, yet has he respect to the lowly: but the …

Proverbs 3:34 Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace to the lowly.

Proverbs 6:16,17 These six things does the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination to him…

Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Isaiah 2:11,12,17 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men …

Isaiah 10:8-14 For he said, Are not my princes altogether kings…

Isaiah 16:6,7 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his …

Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, …

Daniel 5:20-23 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, …

Matthew 23:12 And whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall …

Luke 1:52 He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

Luke 14:11 For whoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself …

Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than …

1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …

giveth grace.

2 Chronicles 32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, …

2 Chronicles 33:12,19,23 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …

2 Chronicles 34:27 Because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before …

Job 22:29 When men are cast down, then you shall say, There is lifting up; …

Psalm 9:12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets …

Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility.

Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.

Proverbs 22:4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life.

Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Submit.

1 Samuel 3:18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he …

2 Samuel 15:26 But if he thus say, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, …

2 Kings 1:13-15 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And …

2 Chronicles 30:8 Now be you not stiff necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves …

2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …

Job 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I …

Job 40:3-5 Then Job answered the LORD, and said…

Job 42:1-6 Then Job answered the LORD, and said…

Psalm 32:3-5 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long…

Psalm 66:3 Say to God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness …

Psalm 68:30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with …

Jeremiah 13:18 Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for …

Daniel 4:25,32,34-37 That they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with …

Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in …

Acts 9:6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will you have me …

Acts 16:29-31 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and …

Acts 26:19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision:

Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to …

Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, said the Lord, every knee shall bow …

Ephesians 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, …

1 Peter 2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: …

Resist.

Matthew 4:3-11 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you be the Son of God, …

Luke 4:2-13 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat …

Ephesians 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.

Ephesians 6:11,12 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against …

1 Peter 5:8,9 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring …

Revelation 12:9-11 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, …

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Draw nigh to God.

Genesis 18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Will you also destroy the righteous …

1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …

Psalm 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in …

Psalm 145:18 The LORD is near to all them that call on him, to all that call on him in truth.

Isaiah 29:13 Why the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their …

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near…

Hosea 6:1,2 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will …

Zechariah 1:3 Therefore say you to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts; Turn you …

Malachi 3:7 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, …

Hebrews 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better …

Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having …

Cleanse.

Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Job 16:17 Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.

Job 17:9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands …

Psalm 18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to …

Psalm 24:4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up …

Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD:

Psalm 73:13 Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

Isaiah 1:15,16 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …

Isaiah 13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that …

Matthew 15:2 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for …

Matthew 27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a …

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, …

1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism does also now save us (not …

purity.

Psalm 51:6,7,10 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part …

Jeremiah 4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem…

Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; …

Ezekiel 36:25-27 Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: …

Matthew 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree …

Matthew 23:25,26 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean …

Luke 11:39,40 And the Lord said to him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside …

Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves …

1 Peter 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through …

1 John 3:3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

ye double. See on ch.

James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

afflicted.

James 5:1,2 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall …

Psalm 119:67,71,136 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word…

Psalm 126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy…

Ecclesiastes 7:2-5 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house …

Isaiah 22:12,13 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to …

Jeremiah 31:9,13,18-20 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them…

Ezekiel 7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains …

Ezekiel 16:63 That you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth …

Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of …

Matthew 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Luke 6:21 Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed …

2 Corinthians 7:10,11 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented …

let.

Job 30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of …

Proverbs 14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

Ecclesiastes 2:2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What does it?

Ecclesiastes 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of …

Lamentations 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

Luke 6:25 Woe to you that are full! for you shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh …

Luke 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received …

Revelation 18:7,8 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much …

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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