What is the source of your quarreling? These are the kinds of things that make people angry and fight and internally want to kill one another. In chapter 4, James elaborates on why we fight and says to trust the Lord for these things. We live in a consumer society here in the United States.
We are a very wealthy nation, and there is always someone who has more: more money, better clothes, a flashier job, a new car, a bigger house, etc. It never ends. While our materialism might seem heightened, the human condition has not changed since James wrote his letter. The believers to whom he was writing were sinning against each other. They were fighting and quarreling because of envy and selfishness. If money is the first order of business for you, then get ready for a miserable life.
Go spend your life in courtrooms fighting your family over the inheritance. It will be miserable. New Heart English Bible Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members? Weymouth New Testament What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures? World English Bible Where do wars and fightings among you come from?
Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? Young's Literal Translation Whence are wars and fightings among you? Additional Translations Romans But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
Titus But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers.
Context Warning against Pride 1 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Treasury of Scripture From where come wars and fights among you? Be sad. Then he will lift you up. A man who says wrong things about his brother or judges his brother is saying wrong things about God's law and he is judging God's law.
If you judge the law, you are not obeying the law, but you are a judge. And he is the one who can save you or kill you.
Who are you that you should judge your neighbour? We will stay there a year. We will buy and sell and get rich. And you are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You are jealous of what others have, but you can't get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them.
Yet you don't have what you want because you don't ask God for it. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. What does James mean?
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