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James 1:14
but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed.
but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed.
Verse 14. _BUT EVERY MAN IS TEMPTED_] Successfully solicited to sin, when _he is drawn away of his own lust_-when, giving way to the evil propensity of his own heart, he does that to which he is solic...
BUT EVERY MAN IS TEMPTED, WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY OF HIS OWN LUST - That is, the fountain or source of all temptation is in man himself. It is true that external inducements to sin may be placed before...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. TRIALS AND THE EXERCISE OF FAITH CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Trials and the power of faith (James 1:1)_ 2. The resources of faith (James 1:5) 3. The realization of faith (James 1:9...
The Beatitude on Endurance (_cf. James 5:11_ and note). Trial is still neutral: it is affliction which tests and develops loyalty. But since human nature has a bias towards evil, a trial exerted upon...
Let no man say when he is tempted, "My temptation comes from God." For God himself is untemptable by evil and tempts no man. But temptation comes to every man, because he is lured on and seduced by hi...
GREETINGS (James 1:1) _ 1:1 James, the slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings to the twelve tribes who are scattered throughout the world._ At the very beginning of his letter Ja...
EVERY MAN. each one. WHEN, &C. = being drawn away. Greek. _exelkomai._ Only here. OF. App-104. LUST. See John 8:44, and compare Romans 7:7. ENTICED. Greek. _deleazo._ Only here and 2 P
Temptation, and its history 12. _Blessed is the man that endureth temptation_ The mode of teaching by Beatitudes reminds us at once of the Sermon on the Mount, with which, it will be seen afterwards,...
_when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed_ Both the participles are primarily used of the way in which animals are taken, the first of capture by the hook or noose, as with fish or the croco...
2–18. (_a_) TEMPTATION FROM WITHOUT, 2–4; (1) WISDOM, PRAYER, STEDFASTNESS, THE DIVINE HELPS IN TEMPTATION, 5–8; (2) A SPECIAL FORM OF TEMPTATION—OPPRESSION BY THE RICH—THE OLD TESTAMENT PROBLEM OF T...
A parable of sin and death. ὑπό implies direct personal agency. Man is regarded as tempted by his own lust or desire, here personified. The offspring of this union is sin; sin when mature becomes the...
_SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF TRIALS -- JAMES 1:2-17:_ Christians must be "positive" when trials come their way. The man who properly reacts to trials must not react as a pessimist. "My brethren, count it all j...
ΈΚΑΣΤΟΣ (G1538) каждый, ΠΕΙΡΆΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΠΕΙΡΆΖΩ (G3985) искушать. ΪΔΙΟΣ (G2398) собственный, ΕΠΙΘΥΜΊΑ (G1939) желание, сильное делание, направленное на объект, похоть (TDNT; DNP, 2...
DISCOURSE: 2357 SIN THE OFFSPRING OF OUR OWN HEARTS James 1:13. _Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every ma...
WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY OF HIS OWN LUST, &C.— "Drawn out of the water, and taken with the bait;" εξελκομενος και δελεαζομενος : in both these words there is an allusion to the _catching a fish with a ba...
_SERMON OUTLINES_ IS TEMPTATION A JOY? James 1:2-4 Proposition: When should a Christian not have joy in temptation, and how could a Christian find joy in temptation? I. Temptation is no joy. A....
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Every man when tempted is so through being drawn away of [by: hupo (G5259); the source, rather than the agent] his own...
VERSE 14. BUT EVERY MAN IS TEMPTED. Man is free and yet possesses passions and appetites. These appeal to man, and their influence upon him entice him and draw him from a virtuous course, and he is t...
1 James is never called an apostle and does not write this epistle in that character. Rather, he puts himself in the place of a slave. Hence the epistle is not concerned with authoritative teaching so...
THE POWER OF FAITH UNDER TEMPTATION 1. Servant] better, 'slave.' The word does not suggest any degradation, but only absolute surrender to the Master. St. James's humility prevents the mention of the...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. INTRODUCTION 1 THE WRITER James is the writer of the letter. But he does not tell us...
So far the inspired Apostle has spoken of the outward part of temptation; now he lays bare the inner — for we suffer the two-fold evil. From without come the whispers of Satan, by himself or his legio...
(2-27) Immediately after the salutation, and with more or less a play upon the word which we translate “greeting” (“rejoice,” James 1:1; “count it all joy,” James 1:2) there follow appeals on behalf o...
(12-18) The Apostle returns to the consideration of the afflicted Christian. Such a one has a blessedness, greater infinitely than any earthly happiness, already in possession, and the promise of a fu...
CHAPTER 8 THE SOURCE OF TEMPTATIONS AND THE REALITY OF SIN THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE DETERMINIST. James 1:12 AFTER the slight digression respecting the short-lived glory of the rich man, St. James ret...
ἕκαστος δὲ πειράζεται ὑπὸ τῆς ἰδίας ἐπιθυμίας : according to this the evil originates in man himself, which would be the case more especially with the sin of lust; with regard to temptation to sin of...
GOD REWARDS, NOT TEMPTS James 1:12 The word _temptation_ may stand for trial and testing, without implying that there is any necessary impulse toward evil; or it may stand for the direct impulse of t...
James wrote to Christians in the midst of temptation and trial. He showed first that the issue of testing is that they "may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing." It is therefore to be looked upo...
PUT THE BLAME ON SELF In the first part of James 1:1-27, trials, or external hardships are considered. Then, as Woods notes, James changes from the noun form to a verb in his consideration of temptati...
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. (13) Let no man say when he is tempted, I am...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
14_When he is drawn away by his own lust. _As the inclination and excitement to sin are inward, in vain does the sinner seek an cause from an external impulse. At the same time these two effects of lu...
The Epistle of James is not addressed to the assembly, and does not take the ground of apostolic authority over the persons to whom it is sent. It is a practical exhortation which still recognises the...
BUT EVERY MAN IS TEMPTED,.... To sin, and he falls in with the temptation, and by it, WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY OF HIS OWN LUST AND ENTICED; the metaphor is taken either from fishes, who are enticed by t...
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Ver. 14. _Drawn away of his lust_] Δελεαζομενος, Satan hath only a persuading sleight, not an enforcing might. Our own co...
_But every man is tempted when_ In the beginning of the temptation; _he is drawn away of his own lust_ Greek, υπο της ιδιας επιθυμιας εξελκομενος; literally, he is _drawn out_ of God, his strong refug...
OF HIS OWN LUST; his desire to obtain something which he cannot without doing wrong....
This chapter has a very close relationship to the Old Testament, for all is seen in connection with God; and Christ is not yet spoken of as the center and essence of all blessing and of all direction...
Define “lust”. How does lust draw us away?...
'But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.' 'is tempted' -Obviously, the word "tempted" here means to be enticed to sin. Carefully note that the idea of entire sanct...
12-18 It is not every man who suffers, that is blessed; but he who with patience and constancy goes through all difficulties in the way of duty. Afflictions cannot make us miserable, if it be not our...
He shows the great cause of sin; that lust hath a greater hand in it than either the devil or his instruments, who cannot make us sin without ourselves: they sometimes tempt, and do not prevail; but w...
James 1:14 But G1161 one G1538 tempted G3985 (G5743) away G1828 (G5746) by G5259 own G2398 desires...
‘But each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.' What then is it that causes men to be tempted? And the answer is that it is as a result of his own fallen desires. It is...
THERE IS ONE KIND OF TESTING THAT IS NOT TO BE SEEN AS OF GOD AND THAT IS THE TEMPTATION TO SIN. THAT SPRINGS FROM THE LUSTS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND LEADS TO DEATH (JAMES 1:13). James now moves from th...
James 1:14. BUT EVERY MAN who is tempted IS TEMPTED, namely to evil, WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY OF HIS OWN LUST. By lust here is meant evil desires in general. The doctrine of human depravity is assumed ra...
WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY BY HIS OWN LUST (υπο της ιδιας επιθυμιας εξελκομενος). Επιθυμια is old word for craving (from επιθυμεω, to have a desire for) either good (Philippians 1:23) or evil (Romans 7:...
TEMPTED "Temptation" is used in two senses: (1) Solicitation to evil, (for example, (Genesis 3:1); (Matthew 4:1); (1 Corinthians 10:13); ...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was an apostle,...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ According to the teaching of some in the present day, the apostle should...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ The apostle James evidently believed in no lost ten tribes, as some nowad...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ «Where are the lost ten tribes?» asks somebody. They never were lost. Tha...
CONTENTS: Testing of faith. Solicitation to evil not of God. Obedience as a test of true faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, James. CONCLUSION: Such as have a true title in Jesus Christ through faith may...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ._ He does not style himself an _apostle,_ because he would not assume any superiority; yet the majesty of his address is the language...
BY HIS OWN EVIL DESIRE. This is really what Paul was saying in Romans 7:14-25. Any temptation depends upon our own response. This is why Jesus could be tempted without sinning (Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 4...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:14 LURED AND ENTICED. A fishing metaphor for drawing prey away from shelter. ⇐...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:13 James turns to the other side of trials, when testing becomes temptation. ⇐ ⇔...
JAMES 1:2 The Testing of Faith. Trials are part of God’s “good gifts” (v. James 1:17) to his people, to strengthen them in their faith....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 1:12. IS TRIED.—Better, “hath been approved.” δόκιμος is properly spoken of money as having been tried and refined. CROWN OF LIFE.—See figure in Isaiah 28:5; and...
EXPOSITION JAMES 1:1 SALUTATION. JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. (On the person who thus describes himself, see the Introduction) It is noteworthy that he keeps entirely out of...
Let's turn to James chapter one. James introduces himself as the bondslave of God and of Jesus Christ. It's a title that most of the apostles delighted to take. Renouncing any claim for any rights, tu...
1 Kings 21:2; 2 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 11:3; Ephesians 4:22; Genesis 6:
Drawn away [ε ξ ε λ κ ο μ ε ν ο ς]. Only here in New Testament. This and the following word are metaphors from hunting and fishing. Drawn away, as beasts are enticed from a safe covert into a place be...
Every man is tempted, when — In the beginning of the temptation. He is drawn away — Drawn out of God, his strong refuge. By his own desire — We are therefore to look for the cause of every sin, in, no...