James 4:1
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What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies? James 4:1 (BBE)
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Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members?
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, — from your pleasures, which war in your members?
From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?
Where do the fights and quarrels you're having come from? Aren't they due to the sensual passions that are in conflict within you?
From whence are warres and contentions among you? are they not hence, euen of your pleasures, that fight in your members?
From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
From where do milchamot [(wars)] come? What is their goirem [(driving force)]? And from where come fights among you? Is it not from here, from the ta'avot [(lusts)] of you warring in your evarim [(members)]?
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