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James 4:1-2 KJV
James · chapter 4 · verses 1–2
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.James 4:1-2 · King James Version
James 4:1-2 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.
4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Commentary
Cross references
- 1 Peter 2:11
- Galatians 5:17
- Romans 7:23
- James 1:14
- Romans 8:7
- 1 John 2:15-17
- Jeremiah 17:9
- Jude 1:16-18
- John 16:24
- Matthew 7:7-8
- James 1:5
- Luke 11:9-13
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 →
- cannotouno, not in direct questions expecting an affirmative answerG3756 →
- cannotdynamaito be able, have power whether by virtue of one s own ability and resources, or of a…G1410 →
- obtainepitygchanōto light or hit upon any person or thing, to attain to, obtainG2013 →
- amongenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- henceenteuthenfrom this place, hence, on the one side and on the other, on each sideG1782 →
- lustshēdonēpleasure, desires for pleasureG2237 →
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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