James 4:1

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Summary

James 4:1

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

Whence

James 3:14

Come they

Lusts

James 4:3

In

Romans 7:5

Galatians 5:17

Colossians 3:5

General references

Mark 7:20

Galatians 5:15

Bible References

Whence

but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth:

Come they

a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,

out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.

for from within, from the heart of man proceed wicked designs, adulteries, fornications, murders; thefts,

you, who have the devil for your father, will execute the designs of your father: he was a murderer from the beginning, and deserted the truth, since he has no love for the truth: when he lyes, he speaks like himself: for he is a lyar, and the father of a lyar.

because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.

he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny,

for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.

as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance.

but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

when their language swells with vanity, by applying to the sensual passions of the licentious, they allure those who were escap'd for a while, from such deceivers:

Above all things you are to know, that in these last times, impostors will appear, who will abandon themselves to their own sensual passions, whose cry will be,

Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.

These are murmurers, complainers, who pursue their own passions: their language swells with flattery, which they offer to the personages of men from a prospect of gain.

Lusts

you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified.

In

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

for the vicious desires are contrary to those of the spirit, and the inclinations of the spirit are contrary to those of the animal part; these are opposite to each other, so that you do not the things that you would.

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

General references

but, said he, that which proceeds from a man, is what defiles him:

but if you bite and tear one another, take heed that you be not consumed by one another.