James 4:1

From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

In Context

2You covet, and have not: you kill, and envy, and can not obtain. You contend and war, and you have not, because you ask not.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Mark 7:21For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

Romans 8:7Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be.

Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Matthew Henry on James 4:1

In this chapter we are directed to consider, I. Some causes of contention, besides those mentioned in the foregoing chapter, and to watch against them, ver. 1-5 . II. We are taught to abandon the friendship of this world, so as to submit and subject ourselves entirely to God, ver. 4-10 . III. All detraction and rash judgment of others are to be carefully avoided, ver. 11, 12 . IV. We must preserve a constant regard, and pay the utmost deference to the disposals of divine Providence, ver. 13, to the end . Read the whole commentary →

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