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NASB | James 4:1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 4:1 What leads to [the unending] quarrels and conflicts among you? Do they not come from your [hedonistic] desires that wage war in your [bodily] members [fighting for control over you]? |
Bible Question: Is this verse talking about the sexual lust of the people he's writing too? |
Bible Answer: Hi Dallas Cowboy 10, Not just sexual lust, but more besides. The word translated "lusts" in verse 1 is from the Greek "hedone" (hay-don-ay), and refers to all pleasures. The word translated "lust" in verse 2 is from "epithumio", and refers to strong desire. James 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts (pleasures) that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts (pleasures). Both of these words rely on the context to tell us what kind of pleasures or lusts, and as they are used here they are indefinate - any pleasures, and any lusts. James is basically saying that all the pleasures that our flesh want war within us, so we fight and quarrel. We want things that we do not have so much that we will fight, and kill to get them. But we don't ask, and even when we do ask, we are asking just to please our flesh, to get all the things we think will make us feel good. I hope this helps! Love in Christ, Mark |
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