Verse 1
James 4:1
Literal Standard Version
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From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here, out of your passions warring in your members?
Original Language Text
greek
Πόθεν πόλεμοι καὶ ⸀πόθεν μάχαι ἐν ὑμῖν; οὐκ ἐντεῦθεν, ἐκ τῶν ἡδονῶν ὑμῶν τῶν στρατευομένων ἐν τοῖς μέλεσιν ὑμῶν;
English Translation
From where come wars and from where do conflicts arise among you? Are they not from here, from your pleasures that wage war in your members?
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Chapter 4 Context
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From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here, out of your passions warring in yo...
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You desire, and do not have, so you murder; and you are zealous, and are not able to attain, so you...
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you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend it in your pleasures.
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Adulterers and adulteresses! Have you not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God (Elo...
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Or, do you think that the Writing says emptily, “The Spirit that has dwelt in us yearns with envy,”
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but God (Elohim) gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God (Elohim) sets Himself up against...
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Be subject, then, to God (Elohim); stand up against the Devil, and he will flee from you;
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draw near to God (Elohim), and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hear...
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Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy...
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be made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.
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Do not speak against one another, brothers; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his...
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One is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; you—who are you that judges the other?
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Go, now, you who are saying, “Today and tomorrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there o...
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who does not know the thing of tomorrow; for what is your life? For it is a vapor that is appearing...
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instead, you ought to say, “If the LORD may will, we will live, and do this or that”;
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but now you glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
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to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing it, it is sin to him.
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