James 1:14

Each person is tempted when his own desire lures and entices him. The root of temptation lies within the human heart, not in God.

Cross-references · 19

• Mark 7:21–22For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
• Eph 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• Matt 15:18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.
• Heb 3:13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
• Prov 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
• Rom 7:13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
• Jas 4:1–2What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
• Matt 5:28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
• Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• Rom 7:11For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
• Job 31:9If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
• Job 31:27so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
• Josh 7:21–24When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
• 2 Sam 11:2–3One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
• 1 Kgs 21:2–4So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”
• Matt 15:20These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”
• Gen 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
• Hos 13:9You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.

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