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James 4:1 Cross-References
Explore 20 cross-references for James 4:1 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting James chapter 4 verse 1 to related passages throughout the Bible.
Warning Against Worldliness
“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? fightings: or, brawlings lusts: or, pleasures”
James 4:1 (KJV)
Commentary on James 4:1
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Conflicts (polemai, πόλεμοι) and fights (machai, μάχαι) arise from passions (hēdonōn, ἡδονῶν) at war within. James locates external strife in internal cravings. Self-centered desires turn community into battlefield.Reformed anthropology diagnoses the heart as source of conflict. Sanctification requires addressing disordered desires, not merely behaviors.
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for James 4:1
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“I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims”
“and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another”
“warring against the law of my mind”
“when he is drawn away by his own lust”
“neither indeed can it be.”
“neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world”
“and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?”
“walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things)”
“uncleanness”
“not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance”