James 4:1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
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Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Mark 7:21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
Romans 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s Torah, neither indeed can it be.
Colossians 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving 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 →