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, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
• Eph 4:22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• Matt 15:18But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
• Heb 3:13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
• Prov 4:23Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
• Rom 7:13Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
• Jas 4:1–2Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
• Matt 5:28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
• Gen 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
• Rom 7:11for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
• Job 31:9“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
• Job 31:27and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
• Josh 7:21–24When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
• 2 Sam 11:2–3At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
• 1 Kgs 21:2–4Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”
• Matt 15:20These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”
• Gen 8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
• Hos 13:9You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.

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