desires that drive them into sin, as the writer puts it in the first verse of the fourth chapter. A word-for-word translation of the text is this: “Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?” (NKJV). We do well to interpret this passage figuratively, in the “sense of strife, conflict, quarrel.”1 Many translators refrain from giving a literal version of the Greek text. They think that the expression war points to an area