James 4:1
Strong's Lexicon
What [causes]
Πόθεν (Pothen)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 4159: From the base of posis with enclitic adverb of origin; from which or what place, state, source or cause.

conflicts
πόλεμοι (polemoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 4171: A war, battle, strife. From pelomai; warfare.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

quarrels
μάχαι (machai)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 3163: From machomai; a battle, i.e. controversy.

among
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

you ?
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

Don’t [they]
οὐκ (ouk)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

[come]
ἐντεῦθεν (enteuthen)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 1782: Hence, from this place, on this side and on that. From the same as enthade; hence; on both sides.

from
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

[the]
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

passions
ἡδονῶν (hēdonōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 2237: From handano; sensual delight; by implication, desire.

at war
στρατευομένων (strateuomenōn)
Verb - Present Participle Middle - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's Greek 4754: To wage war, fight, serve as a soldier; fig: of the warring lusts against the soul.

within
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

you
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

μέλεσιν (melesin)
Noun - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3196: A bodily organ, limb, member. Of uncertain affinity; a limb or part of the body.

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

Young's Literal Translation
Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence—out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

New American Standard Bible
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

King James Bible
From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
Parallel Verses
New International Version
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?

New Living Translation
What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don't they come from the evil desires at war within you?

English Standard Version
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

New American Standard Bible
What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don't they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

International Standard Version
Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

NET Bible
Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

American Standard Version
Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

English Revised Version
Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Young's Literal Translation
Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
















Cross References
Romans 7:23
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

2 Timothy 2:23
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

James 1:1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

James 3:18
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

James 3:16
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

James 4:2
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.

James 4:3
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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