“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?” James has just mentioned peace twice in one short verse. Now he speaks of war. The word for “wars” is polemos. It is the usual word for war and fighting and is used of literal wars among men (Matt. 24:6). The word for “fightings” is machē. It refers to fighting and strife and is always used in the plural in the New Testament. Paul uses the word to describe