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James 4:1

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Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

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James 4:1 in other translations

Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

James 4:1 · American Standard Version

James 4:1 in context

  1. 1Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
  2. 2You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
  3. 3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.