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JAMES CHAPTER 4
Jam_4:1-6 Our evil lusts and passions tend to breed quarrels
among ourselves, and to set us at enmity with God.
Jam_4:7-10 The way to overcome them, and recover God’s favour.
Jam_4:11,12 Against detraction and censoriousness.
Jam_4:13-17 We must not presume on the future, but commit
ourselves to God’s providence.
Wars and fightings; either it may be understood properly of insurrections, and tumults, in which, possibly, some carnal professors might be engaged; or rather, strife and contention about outward things, wranglings among themselves, and going to law, especially before unbelieving judges, 1Co_6:1.
Your lusts; Greek, pleasures, i.e. those lusts whereof pleasure is the end, which is therefore put for the lusts themselves: he means the over eager desire of riches, worldly greatness, carnal delights, Tit_3:3, where lusts and pleasures go together.
That war; oppose and tumultuate against reason, conscience, grace, Rom_7:23 1Pe_2:11.
In your members; not only the members of the body, but faculties of the soul, exercised by them; all the parts of man unrenewed, Col_3:5, which are used as weapons of unrighteousness, Rom_6:13.