James 4:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Bible Comments

Caution against Worldly-Mindedness and Its Consequences.

Against a lustful, quarrelsome disposition:

James 4:1-5

1 From whence come wars and fightingsa among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

2 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.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.b

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?