Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on James 4:1 in English Standard Version "What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?" Ro 7:23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 1Pe 2:11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.