James 4:1 KJV
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Thou and Ye
- you, your more than one
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Scofield Notes
- righteousness(See Scofield "1 John 3:7").
Matthew Henry
- Here are cautions against corrupt affections, and love of this world, which is enmity to GodSince all wars and fightings come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in the members. Wordly and fleshly...
Thompson Chains
- Sin's OriginLast of 5 links
Cross References
- 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.
- 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.
- James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
- James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
- Genesis 4:5–8 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. …
- Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Mark 7:21–23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …
- Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
- 1 Peter 4:2–3 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. …
- 2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
- 1 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. …
- Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
- John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
- Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
- 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.
- Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
- 1 Timothy 6:4–10 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, …
- James 3:14–18 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
- 1 Peter 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
- Jude 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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Greek and Strong’s
- From whence Πόθεν Pothen πόθεν Adverb
- wars πόλεμοι polemoi πόλεμος Noun · nominative masculine plural
- and καὶ kai καί Conjunction
- fightings μάχαι machai μάχη Noun · nominative feminine plural
- among ἐν en ἐν Preposition
- you ὑμῖν hymin Pronoun · second person, dative plural ὑμῖν hymîn
- not οὐκ ouk οὐ Particle
- hence ἐντεῦθεν enteuthen ἐντεῦθεν Adverb
- of ἐκ ek ἐκ Preposition
- your ὑμῶν hymōn Pronoun · second person, genitive plural ὑμῶν hymōn
- lusts τῶν tōn Article · genitive feminine plural ἡδονῶν hēdonōn ἡδονή Noun · genitive feminine plural
- that war τῶν tōn Pronoun · genitive feminine plural στρατευομένων strateuomenōn στρατεύομαι Verb · present middle participle, genitive feminine plural
- in ἐν en ἐν Preposition
- your ὑμῶν hymōn Pronoun · second person, genitive plural ὑμῶν hymōn
- members τοῖς tois Article · dative neuter plural μέλεσιν melesin μέλος Noun · dative neuter plural
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