James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye 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.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
- KJV
- From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
- WEB
- Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
- ASV
- Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?
- DARBY
- Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?
- BLB
- From where [are] battles and from where [are] fights among you⁺? [Is it] not from there, out of your⁺ pleasures warring in your⁺ members?
- ÅB
- Hvorfra kommer all ufreden, og hvorfra kommer all striden iblant dere? Er det ikke av deres lyster, som fører krig i deres lemmer?
- OTB
- Hva er årsaken til strid og krangel blant dere? Kommer de ikke fra deres begjær som fører krig i deres lemmer?
- B1930
- Hvorfra kommer all ufreden, og hvorfra kommer all striden iblandt eder? Er det ikke av eders lyster, som fører krig i eders lemmer?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Read in contextGalatians 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.
Read in contextRomans 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.
Read in contextJames 1:14
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Read in contextRomans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Read in context1 John 2:15–17
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.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Read in contextJude 1:16–18
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
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