...given this answer, when in the first verse of his fourth chapter, he himself proposes the question ; " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, which war in your membersr" The passions of envy, ambition, avarice, coveting another's possessions,...

...wars, which is given by St. James, has also been considered as prohibiting every species of warfare. " From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war in your members ? Ye lust and have not : ye kill and desire to have, and cannot obtain...

...Where religion and morals are disregarded, the internal peace of a nation cannot long be maintained. " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members ? " They are the natural and unavoidable results of impurity...

...departure from the doctrines of Christ. The Apostle James describes their origin with great precision. " From whence come wars and fightings among you. Come they not hence even of your lusts?" James iv. 1, &c. That church under whatever name it may have been known, which has originated,...

...influence of which is owing much the greatest part of the vice and misery that desolate mankind. " From whence come " wars and fightings among you? Come they " not hence, even of your lusts, which war " in your members?"* From whence (may we add) come murders, frauds, breaches of trust,...

...ill-humour that breeds quarrels and law-suits. Whence is all our contention, but for want of contentment ?* From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? (James, iv. 1.) in particular, from this lust of discontent ? Why did Absalom raise a war against...

...unlawful. But so does war. For the sinfulness of its cause, we have an account of that in James iv. 1, Whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts ? And for the unlawfulness of its effects, we need only survey our own experience, without recurring...

...place, strive to cut deep at the roots of your own selfishness. — " From whence," asks St. James, " come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence even of your lusts ?" Do you ask by what spell the Apostle of the Gentiles collected and combined large masses of...

...corrupted temper of heart, they are ascribed correctly. They are ascribed where scripture ascribes them. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members?" " Only by pride cometh contention." If those,who call upon themselves...

...the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. — James ,.i. 14, 15. 17, 18. From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts ? — James iv. 1 . Let none of you suffer, &c. as a busybody in other men's matters. — 1 Pet....