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James · chapter 4 · verse 1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?James 4:1 · King James Version
James 4:1 in context
1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
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Key words (Strong's)
- fightingsmachēa fight or combat, of those in arms, a battle, of persons at variance, disputants etc…G3163 →
- whencepothenof place from where, from what condition, of origin or source from what author or giver…G4159 →
- amongenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- henceenteuthenfrom this place, hence, on the one side and on the other, on each sideG1782 →
- lustshēdonēpleasure, desires for pleasureG2237 →
- warspolemosa war, a fight, a battle, a dispute, strife, quarrelG4171 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-10