"From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?"
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Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, -- from your pleasures, which war in your members?
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?