James 4:1
Douay-Rheims
From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?
Glossa Ordinaria
From whence wars, etc. He had forbidden zeal and contention, whence he also discusses this more at large, adding other vices which follow from it: from contention, concupiscence; from concupiscences, wars and quarrels. For he who desires to be preferred, or to abound in temporal things, hates, envies, kills.
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James 4:1
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.