James 4:1 KJV — MannaFest

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

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

DBT

Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, — from your pleasures, which war in your members?

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James — The Lord's brother writes to the twelve tribes scattered abroad — five chapters of direct, practical wisdom on the life faith produces. Pure religion, the tongue, the prayer of the righteous.

Author: James the Lord's brother (traditional — cf. Gal 1:19), leader of the Jerusalem church
Date: Early — possibly mid-40s AD, making it likely the earliest NT letter

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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.

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The Jews were a very seditious people, and had therefore frequent wars with the Romans; and they were a very quarrelsome divided people, often fighting among themselves; and many of those corrupt Christians against whose errors and vices this epistle was written seem to have fallen in with the common quarrels.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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" before "fightings." Tumults marked the era before the destruction of Jerusalem when James wrote.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Is it not from your pleasures - Your desires of earthly pleasures. Which war - Against your souls. In your members - Here is the first seat of the war.

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JAS 4:1GAL 5:17 ROM 8:13
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JAS 4:1JAS 1:14 MRK 7:21-22
JAS 4:11PE 2:11 1JN 2:15-17
JAS 4:1ROM 8:7 1CO 2:14
JAS 4:1JAS 1:14 EPH 4:22
JAS 4:11PE 2:11 GAL 5:24
JAS 4:1GAL 5:17 ROM 8:5-8
JAS 4:1JAS 1:14 MAT 15:18

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