...thirst after righteousness : for they shall be filled." " Ye lust and have not :" said St. James ; " ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because cause ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it. upon your...

...wars, which is given by St. James, has also been considered as prohibiting every species of warfare. " From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come...fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not." James iv. 1, 2. In this passage the Apostle is clearly speaking concerning wars of aggression, not...

...you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Jam. iv. 1. From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come...hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ! (Exod. xxii. 42. see above.) Col. iii. 13. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if...

...given this answer, when in the first verse of his fourth chapter, he himself proposes the question ; " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, which war in your membersr" The passions of envy, ambition, avarice, coveting another's possessions,...

...than that, which has been assigned to it by the pen of inspiration. "Whence come wars and fightings? Come they not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members t" Had the king of Assyria imbibed a spirit, similar to that, which Christianity inculcates, would...

...than that, which has been assigned to it by the pen of inspiration. "Whence come wars and fightings? Come they not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members ?" Had the king of Assyria imbibed a spirit, similar to that, which christianity inculcates, would...

...Where religion and morals are disregarded, the internal peace of a nation cannot long be maintained. " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members ? " They are the natural and unavoidable results of impurity...

...in his interrogatories on the subject. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come Ihey not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members...desire to have and cannot obtain, ye fight and war." On the subjects of peace and war, much has been written and much has been published. Military conquerors...

...departure from the doctrines of Christ. The Apostle James describes their origin with great precision. " From whence come wars and fightings among you. Come they not hence even of your lusts?" James iv. 1, &c. That church under whatever name it may have been known, which has originated, promoted,...

...ill-humour that breeds quarrels and law-suits. Whence is all our contention, but for want of contentment ?* From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? (James, iv. 1.) in particular, from this lust of discontent ? Why did Absalom raise a war against his...