James 4:1 meaning and explanation

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

James 4:1, Berean Standard Bible

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James is writing to scattered Christian communities, and he opens this chapter by tracing their fights and quarrels back to their source. The question is rhetorical: the conflict is not mainly outside them but inside them.

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