From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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Gill's Exposition
From whence come wars and fightings among you?.... Which are to be understood, not of public and national wars, such as might be between the Jews and other nations at this time; for the apostle is not…
Barnes' Notes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? - Margin, “brawlings.” The reference is to strifes and contentions of all kinds; and the question, then, as it is now, was an important one, what was…
Adam Clarke
From whence come wars and fightings - About the time in which St. James wrote, whether we follow the earlier or the later date of this epistle, we find, according to the accounts given by Josephus,…
The former chapter speaks of envying one another, as the great spring of strifes and contentions; this chapter speaks of a lust after worldly things, and a setting too great a value upon worldly…
Cambridge Bible
Jas 4:1-7. God's giving and the World's getting
1. whence come wars and fightings among you? One source of discord had been touched in the "Be not many masters" of Chap. Jas 3:1. Sectarianism and all…
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