James 4:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

James 4:1 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Galatians 5:17
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
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.
James 1:14
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Topics

Ambition Cupidity Depravity of Man Desire Guilt Lasciviousness Lust Popular Sins

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly pleasures and friendships, as that which carried their divisions to a shameful height. I. The apostle here reproves the Jewish Christians for their wars, and for their lusts as the cause of them: Whence co…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Jas 4:1-17. Against Fightings and Their Source; Worldly Lusts; Uncharitable Judgments, and Presumptuous Reckoning on the Future. 1. whence--The cause of quarrels is often sought in external circumstances, whereas internal lusts are the true origin. wars, &c.--contrasted with the “peace” of heavenly wisdom. “Fightings” are the active carrying on of “wars.” The best authorities have a second “whence…