James 1:14 Cross References

James 1:14

14: Temptation comes from the lure of our own evil desires.

throw off your old evil nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception.

For from within, out of a person's heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, eagerness for lustful pleasure, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He is trusting something that can give him no help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, "Is this thing, this idol that I'm holding in my hand, a lie?"

You must warn each other every day, as long as it is called "today," so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.

But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my doom? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God's good commandment for its own evil purposes.

"If my heart has been seduced by a woman, or if I have lusted for my neighbor's wife,

What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn't it the whole army of evil desires at war within you?
You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous for what others have, and you can't possess it, so you fight and quarrel to take it away from them. And yet the reason you don't have what you want is that you don't ask God for it.

Sin took advantage of the law and fooled me; it took the good law and used it to make me guilty of death.

One day Ahab said to Naboth, "Since your vineyard is so convenient to the palace, I would like to buy it to use as a vegetable garden. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange, or if you prefer, I will pay you for it."
But Naboth replied, "The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance that was passed down by my ancestors."
So Ahab went home angry and sullen because of Naboth's answer. The king went to bed with his face to the wall and refused to eat!

For I saw a beautiful robe imported from Babylon, two hundred silver coins, and a bar of gold weighing more than a pound. I wanted them so much that I took them. They are hidden in the ground beneath my tent, with the silver buried deeper than the rest."
So Joshua sent some men to make a search. They ran to the tent and found the stolen goods hidden there, just as Achan had said, with the silver buried beneath the rest.
They took the things from the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites. Then they laid them on the ground in the presence of the LORD.
Then Joshua and all the Israelites took Achan, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, cattle, donkeys, sheep, tent, and everything he had, and they brought them to the valley of Achor.

But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust in his eye has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Late one afternoon David got out of bed after taking a nap and went for a stroll on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath.
He sent someone to find out who she was, and he was told, "She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite."

These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands could never defile you and make you unacceptable to God!"

And the LORD was pleased with the sacrifice and said to himself, "I will never again curse the earth, destroying all living things, even though people's thoughts and actions are bent toward evil from childhood.

Now the LORD observed the extent of the people's wickedness, and he saw that all their thoughts were consistently and totally evil.

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