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James 4:2
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.
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.
Verse James 4:2. _YE LUST, AND HAVE NOT_] Ye are ever covetous, and ever poor. _YE KILL, AND, DESIRE TO HAVE_] Ye are constantly engaged in insurrections and predatory wars, and never gain any advant...
YE LUST, AND HAVE NOT - That is, you wish to have something which you do not now possess, and to which you have no just claim, and this prompts to the effort to obtain it by force. You desire extensio...
IV. FURTHER EXHORTATIONS TO RIGHT LIVING CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Fightings and worldliness rebuked (James 4:1)_ 2. The Godly walk (James 4:7) James 4:1 A strong rebuke follows the statements concerning the...
The climax of the last paragraph leads to a diagnosis of the disease that poisoned quarrelsome Jewish communities. Faction fights were the logical outcome of unbridled passions; they campaign against...
MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
Whence come feuds and whence come fights among you? Is this not their source--do they not arise because of these desires for pleasures which carry on their constant warring campaign within your member...
DESIRE TO HAVE. covet earnestly. Greek. _zeloo._ See Acts 7:9. CANNOT. are not (App-105) able to. OBTAIN. See Romans 11:7. FIGHT. Greek. _machomai._ See Acts 7:26. WAR. Greek. polemeo.
_Ye lust and have not_ The _genesis_of evil is traced somewhat in the same way as in ch. James 1:15. The germ is found in desire for what we have not, as e. g. in the sins of David (2 Samuel 11:1) and...
2 and 3. These two verses are among the examples of poetical form in this epistle: ζηλοῦτε is an advance on ἐπιθυμεῖτε as οὐ δύνασθε ἐπιτυχεῖν is an advance on οὐκ ἔχετε. 2. ἘΠΙΘΥΜΕΙ͂ΤΕ, ΚΑῚ ΟΥ̓Κ ἜΧΕΤ...
CH. 4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
_DO NOT BE FILLED WITH PRIDE -- JAMES 4:1-5 :_ Here James deals with the source or origin of altercations among brethren. He listed as causes of these wars and fightings: (1) a lust after worldly thin...
ΕΠΙΘΥΜΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΘΥΜΈΩ (G1937) желать, стремиться, ΈΧΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь; здесь: обладать, ΦΟΝΕΎΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΦΟΝΕΎΩ (G5407) убивать, ΖΗΛΟΎΤΕ _...
YE KILL, AND DESIRE TO HAVE,— We must take the word φονευετε, _ye kill,_ in a softer sense than the common meaning of the word. As _wars_ and _fightings,_ in the first verse, are interpreted _quarrels...
SELFISH PLEASURE A SOURCE OF TROUBLE _Text 4:1-3_ James 4:1 Whence come wars, and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? James 4:12....
CHAPTER VIII _CAUSE AND REMEDY OF STRIFE_ James 4:1-12 _Introduction_ Can it be possible that the church of Jesus Christ could descend to the sins mentioned here so soon after Pentecost? In less th...
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 LUST, [ epithumeite (G1937)] - a different word from James 4:1; ye...
VERSE 2 YE LUST, AND HAVE NOT. That is, ye covet, and fail to obtain what you desire. YE FIGHT AND WAR, YET YE HAVE NOT. Possibly you kill the heathen, desiring to make proselytes, but you fail in...
20 The case of Abraham is most helpful in further defining the distinct viewpoints of Paul and James. The former refers us to the fifteenth chapter of Genesis, the latter to the twenty-second. In the...
'You eagerly desire something which another has and you have not. This unregulated desire may lead to hate and even murder (cp. Ahab, 1 Kings 21), but even so your covetous desires go on; they grow by...
DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 4 DESIRES AND DIVISIONS 4:1-10 V1 You know where all the fights and quarrels...
YE LUST, AND HAVE NOT... — Better thus: _Ye desire, and have not; ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and make war; ye have not, because ye ask not; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask t...
CHAPTER 18 ST. JAMES AND PLATO ON LUSTS AS THE CAUSES OF STRIFE; THEIR EFFECT ON PRAYER. James 4:1 THE change from the close of the third chapter to the beginning of the fourth is startling. St. Jam...
ἐπιθυμεῖτε καὶ οὐκ ἔχετε …: It must be confessed that these verses are very difficult to understand; we have, on the one hand, lusting and coveting, murdering and fighting; and, on the other hand, pra...
“DRAW NIGH TO GOD” James 4:1 The Apostle returns to “the jealousy and faction” of the previous chapter, James 3:14, and says that these evils are traceable to _lust_, that is, to inordinate desire. T...
The writer now dealt with the effect of faith on character. Everything depends on desire. To attempt to satisfy a natural desire without reference to God is futile, and issues in internal conflict and...
SEEKING TO PLEASE SELF"Lust" is a strong desire for a thing. Certainly, it has caused others to do wicked things. David committed adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband, Uriah, killed to satisfy...
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, (2) because ye ask not. (2) He reprehends them by name, who are not ashamed to make God the m...
_You covet, and have not. Though God has promised that whosoever asks shall receive, (Matthew vii. 8.) yet no wonder you receive not, because you ask amiss, by asking such temporal things as would be...
From whence come wars and fightings 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...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
2_Ye lust, _or _covet, and have not_. He seems to intimate that the soul of man is insatiable, when he indulges wicked lusts; and truly it is so; for he who suffers his sinful propensities to rule unc...
In all that follows we have still the judgment of unbridled nature, of will in its different forms: contentions that arise from the lusts of the natural heart; request made to God proceeding from the...
YE LUST, AND HAVE NOT,.... The apostle proceeds to show the unsuccessfulness of many in their desires and pursuits after worldly things; some might be like the sluggard, whose soul desireth all good t...
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. Ver. 2. _Ye lust and have not_] viz. To the satisfying of your lusts; for...
_Ye lust_ Επιθυμειτε, _ye covet_, or eagerly desire; _and have not_ What you desire; you are, some way or other, hindered from attaining that of which you are so greedy; _ye kill_ In your heart; _for...
HAVE NOT; real satisfying enjoyment, because you do not seek it in the right things or in the right way. Wars are the fruit of human wickedness. Let all men be at peace with God, and obey the command,...
This chapter, to the end of v.6, continues the subject begun in Ch.3:13. Sensual. devilish wisdom was accompanied by wars and fightings: but this proceeded from the lusts of the flesh active within th...
Does lust always lead to obtaining? Why are murder and covet mentioned? Give a simple definition of “covet” in the New Testament. Why do we fight? Discuss: You do not have because you do not ask. Are...
"You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask."You lust and do not have" -present tense, "to...
1-10 Since all wars and fightings come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in the members. Wordly and fleshly lusts are distempers, which will not allo...
YE LUST; passionately and greedily desire. AND HAVE NOT; either soon lose, or rather cannot get, what ye so lust after. YE KILL; some copies have it, ye envy, and many suppose that to be the better re...
James 4:2 lust G1937 (G5719) and G2532 not G3756 have G2192 (G5719) murder G5407 (G5719) and...
‘You desire, and have not. You kill, and envy, and cannot obtain. You fight and war; you have not, because you ask not.' He then builds up a picture which reveals how they go about obtaining what they...
IN CONTRAST TO THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM ABOVE ARE THOSE WHO YIELD TO THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND SEEK TO BE FRIENDS OF A WORLD WHICH IGNORES CHRIST (JAMES 4:1). Having spoken o...
James 4:2. YE LUST AND HAVE NOT. This verse further describes the origin or genesis of these external strifes. First, then, is the evil desire; then this desire, being ungratified, leads to hatred and...
James 4:1-12. St. James warns his readers against those evil passions which gave rise to wars and fightings among them. They must moderate their desires, and guard against self-gratification. If they...
YE LUST (επιθυμειτε). Present active indicative of επιθυμεω, old word (from επι, θυμος, yearning passion for), not necessarily evil as clearly not in Luke 22:15 of Christ, but usually so in the N.T...
James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ Whether between nations, or parties or individuals,-if there be wars and fightings, whence do they come? James 4:1. _Come they not hence,...
CONTENTS: Rebuke of worldliness and exhortation to humility before God. CHARACTERS: God, Satan. CONCLUSION: Worldly and fleshly lusts are the distemper which will not allow contentment or satisfacti...
James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ St. James saw in the Spirit the bloody and cruel wars which would rise among christian powers, much the same as among the heathen. He had a...
YOU WANT THINGS. The _Expositor's Greek Testament_ says: "It must be confessed that these verses are very difficult to understand." Yet I think _MacKnight_ gives the _key_ by viewing James as a _unity...
_From whence come wars and fightings?_ WARS AND FIGHTING--WHENCE THEY PROCEED I. THE QUESTION PROPOSED (James 4:1). We have no very particular information as to the nature of these contests, the part...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:2 People DESIRE and COVET (“jealousy,” James 3:14), which leads to the terrible fighting in the church....
THE LOWER AND THE HIGHER LIFE _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 4:1. LUSTS.—Pleasures, but viewed on their evil side. _Desires_ that are ill regulated. Compare 1 Peter 2:11; Romans 7:23. Evidentl...
EXPOSITION JAMES 4:1 REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED. A terribly sadden transition from the "peace" with which James 3:1. closed....
This chapter could be entitled how to win friends and influence people. Guard your tongue, bring your tongue under control, use it for good, use it to encourage to build up, don't use it to tear down,...
1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Habakkuk 2:5; Isai
Ye lust. See on desire, 1 Peter 1:12; Mark 4:19. Desire to have [ζ η λ ο υ τ ε]. Rev., covet, and are jealous, in margin. See on ch. James 3:14....
Ye kill — In your heart, for "he that hateth his brother is a murderer." Ye fight and war — That is, furiously strive and contend. Ye ask not — And no marvel; for a man full of evil desire, of envy or...
The Jews, at the writing of this epistle to them, did vehemently lust after liberty, and freedom from the Roman yoke, and for dominion and government over other nations; believing that their Messiah w...