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Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don`t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
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Conflict's True Source
Commentators unanimously agree that James identifies the root of all conflict—from personal quarrels to national wars—not in external circumstances, but within the human heart. The source is our own selfish 'pleasures' or 'lusts' (from the Greek 'hēdonē,' the root of 'hedonism'), which are the unchecked desires for things we believe will bring us satisfaction.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTER.
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19th Century
Anglican
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Baptist
From whence come wars and fightings among you?
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16th Century
Protestant
From whence come wars. As he had spoken of peace, and had reminded them that vices must be exterminated in such a way as to preserve peace…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
From where come wars and fightings among you ? &c.] Which are to be understood, not of public and national wars, suc…
Since all wars and fighting come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in our members. Worldly and fl…
