 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 644 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1817 - 610 pages
...all parts of this nation. And is not this nil chargeable to sin? Forget not the testimony of James. "Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence even of your lusts, which war in your members?" Such is the nature, and such the tendency of sin in general. Depravity... | |
 | Noah Worcester - Dueling - 1817 - 312 pages
...this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God, love his brother also." " From whence then come wars and fightings among you '/ Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?" Pause, brethren, and decide. Is not the true source of war here disclosed... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...innocent cause, of those dissensions and animosities, which it was designed for ever to extirpate. " Whence come wars and fightings among " you? Come they not hence, even of your desires," which your religion should mortify and subdue? Doubtless, the sight of Christian, Catholic,... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 604 pages
...innocent cause, of those dissensions and animosities, which it was designed for ever to extirpate. " Whence come wars and fightings among " you? Come they not hence, even of your desires," which your religion should mortify and subdue? Doubtless, the sight of Christian, Catholic,... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...beneficence, are essentially requisite. The spirit of love is indeed the true Christian spirit. 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... | |
 | Frances Arabella Rowden - 1820 - 178 pages
...to them " that hate us, and to pray for them which *a" spitefully use us and persecute us." 1 " From whence come wars and fightings among " you ? come they not hence even of your lusts, " which war in your members 1" * Nothing can more strongly exemplify the language of the Apostle... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - Christian union - 1821 - 192 pages
...break the peace of other societies, may be traced in general to the workings of human corruption. " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members f?" They spring from the ignorance, error, -* Rom. xvi. 17. f James... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1821 - 550 pages
...But, in one respect, the former differ from the latter, as they originate with man himself. " From whence come wars and fightings among " you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that " war in your members*?" But the righteous Governor of the world, who has hitherto permitted... | |
 | William Gurnall - Christian life - 1821 - 512 pages
...the principle and root that bears all the bitter fruit of strife and contention in the world : " from whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war in your members ?" James iv. 1. This breaks the peace with God, ourselves, and others.... | |
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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 and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it. 
