James 4:1
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Note Literally passions warring among your members?
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- whence
- James 3:14–18
- fightings
- or, brawlings. come they.
- James 1:14; Genesis 4:5–8; Jeremiah 17:9; Matthew 15:19; Mark 7:21–23; John 8:44; Romans 8:7; 1 Timothy 6:4–10; Titus 3:3; 1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 2:11; 1 Peter 4:2, 3; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 3:3; 1 John 2:15–17; Jude 1:16–18
- lusts
- or, pleasures.
- James 4:3
- in
- Romans 7:5, 23; Galatians 5:17; Colossians 3:5