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 ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask... The Advocate of Peace - Էջ 381839Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| rev. John Brougham - 1813 - 344 էջ
...possessions by invading the property of their weaker neighbours. " From " whence," says St. James, " come wars " and fightings among you ? come they "...hence, even of your lusts that war " in your members." But what are frauds committed under the specious name of war compared with those acts of dishonesty... | |
| John Wesley - 1813 - 470 էջ
...members ? Ye desire and have not, ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war ; yet ye 3 have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your 4 pleasures. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - 1813 - 340 էջ
...another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal ?" " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts ? [selfish covetings, according to that explanation, " I had not known lust except the law had said,... | |
| 1814 - 964 էջ
...also been considered as prohibiting every species of warfare. From whence come wars and Jigh tings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war in your members? Ye lu&t and have not : ye kill and desire Jo have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1870 - 596 էջ
...dishonest purposes, and the horrid passions of malice and revenge. "From whence," asks the Apostle James, " come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts" (Jas. iv. 1). In all cases wars are but permitted by Him who alone knoweth the secrets of every heart,... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 644 էջ
...likewise, that the first ten verses of ch. iv. are addressed to unbelieving Jews. Where it is said, " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they...desire to have, and cannot obtain. Ye fight, and war." These things could not be said to Christians. They must relate to those disturbances, which, some while... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 718 էջ
...gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits." XXXI. James iv. 2, " Ye lust, and ye have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot...fight, and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3, Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that yc may consume it upon your lusts. 4, — know... | |
| William Bates - 1815 - 526 էջ
...and tyrannical passions have engaged them in mortal enmity. It is the account St. James gives, " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they...hence, even of your lusts, that war in your members ?" Sin kindles and blows the fire of discord, in families, cities, kingdoms : sin is the fury that... | |
| 1815 - 608 էջ
...and contentions among you? come they not even from your lusts, that war iu your members? 2. Ye covet, and have not; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain; ye fight and contend, and yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss,... | |
| Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1816 - 488 էջ
...come wars and fightings ?" saith the apostle James ; " Come they not hence, even of your lusts which war in your members ? Ye lust and have not ; ye kill and desire to have, and cannot obtain." It is this which engenders strife and contention, and almost every evil work. It destroys the tranquillity... | |
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