James 4:1

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

From whence {G4159} come wars {G4171} and {G2532} fightings {G3163} among {G1722} you {G5213}? come they not {G3756} hence {G1782}, even of {G1537} your {G5216} lusts {G2237} that war {G4754} in {G1722} your {G5216} members {G3196}?

What is causing all the quarrels and fights among you? Isn’t it your desires battling inside you?

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • 1 Peter 2:11 (33 votes)

    Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  • Galatians 5:17 (32 votes)

    For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

  • Romans 7:23 (30 votes)

    But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

  • Romans 8:7 (22 votes)

    Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

  • 1 John 2:15 (20 votes)

    Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 1 John 2:17 (20 votes)

    And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

  • James 1:14 (20 votes)

    But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.