 | 1832 - 220 pagina’s
...chastisement from God to each of us and to our city ; as such, let us regard it. — " From whence come wars and fightings among you, come they not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members?" (James, iv. 1.) Yet war is one of God's scourges; and civil war a scourge... | |
 | John Howe - 1832 - 548 pagina’s
...made to cease too. We are told, what those causes are by the apostle James, chap. 4. 1. From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts? Indeed this is the same cause that was before mentioned, but considered as disquieting and troubling... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pagina’s
...countrymen, who still continued to display the highest antipathy to christianity. " Whence," says he, " come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? Ye desire, and have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1832 - 330 pagina’s
...shall cease. For scornful men bring a city into a snare ; but wise men turn away wrath. 3 From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? * He loveth transgression that loveth strife. * It is an honour for a man... | |
 | 1832 - 294 pagina’s
...belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. (Phil. 2. 21 : 3. 19.)' From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members ? (James 4. 1.) — Godresisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pagina’s
...the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. Jo. iii. 14 — 18. From whence les Lambert that war in your members ? Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in... | |
 | 1833 - 744 pagina’s
...always originate in selfishness. " From whence," asks an Apostle, " come wars and fightings among you 1 Come they not hence, even of your lusts ? Ye lust and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain." To gratify the lust of power or of gain, one nation encroaches on the rights of... | |
 | T. S. ELLERBY - 1833 - 372 pagina’s
...glory in the higher and the better world, which God hath prepared for them that love him." From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? — Epistle of James, chap. iv. 1. " The love of the world is undoubtedly... | |
 | William Cogswell - 1833 - 368 pagina’s
...constant." In perfect accordance with this sentiment .are the views of the apostle James. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come* they not hence, even of your lusts. that war in your members ?" " The war spirit," says one, "is not indeed acknowledged by those under... | |
 | Thomas Watson - 1833 - 794 pagina’s
...quarrels and Jawsuits. Whence are all our contentious, but for want of contentation ? " From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts?" James iv. 1. In particular from the lust of discontent. Why did Absalom raise a war against his father,... | |
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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 upon your lusts. 
