James 4:1

From where come wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

English Majority Text (NT)

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 lust and you do not have. You murder and are jealous and you cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have because you do not ask.

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Cross References

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

Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

Romans 8:7Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it.

Colossians 3:5Therefore put to death your members on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

Titus 3:3For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts 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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