James 4:1

From where [are] wars and fightings among you? [Is it] not from here, out of your passions warring in your members?

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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 desire, and do not have, [so] you murder; and you are zealous, and are not able to attain, [so] you fight and war; and you do not have, because of your not asking;

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Cross References

Jeremiah 17:9The heart [is] deceitful above all things, || And it [is] incurable—who knows it?

Mark 7:21for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

Romans 7:5for when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, that [are] through the Law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to death;

Romans 8:7because the mind of the flesh [is] enmity to God, for to the Law of God it does not subject itself,

Colossians 3:5Put to death, then, your members that [are] on the earth—whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry—

Titus 3:3for we, also, were once thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving manifold desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, odious—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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