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James 2:21
Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works when he had offered Isaac, his son, upon the altar?
Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works when he had offered Isaac, his son, upon the altar?
Verse 21. _WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER_] Did not the conduct of Abraham, in offering up his son Isaac on the altar, sufficiently prove that _he believed in God_, and that it was his _faith_ in him that...
WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER - Our progenitor, our ancestor; using the word “father,” as frequently occurs in the Bible, to denote a remote ancestor. Compare the notes at Matthew 1:1. A reference to his...
II. THE ROYAL LAW: FAITH AND WORKS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The faith of Christ with respect to persons (James 2:1)_ 2. The royal law (James 2:6) 3. Faith must be manifested by works (James 2:14)...
The surface contradiction between James and Paul, which made Luther call this an epistle of straw, and the Tü bingen critics hail it as a Judaist's attack upon Paulinism, troubles no one now, simply b...
My brothers, what use is it if a man claims to have faith and has no deeds to show? Are you going to claim that his faith is able to save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear, and if they h...
Do you wish for proof, you empty creature, that faith without deeds is ineffective? Our father Abraham was proved righteous in consequence of deeds, when he was ready to offer Isaac his son upon the a...
RESPECT OF PERSONS (James 2:1) _ 2:1 My brothers, you cannot really believe that you have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, and yet continue to have respect of persons._ Respect of persons is...
JUSTIFIED. App-191. SON. App-108....
_Was not Abraham our father justified by works_ The close correspondence of phraseology with Romans 4:2 at first seems to favour the view that St James is correcting or modifying St Paul's statement I...
Justification by Faith and Works 14. _though a man say he hath faith_ The section on which we now enter has been the battle-field of almost endless controversies. It led Luther in the boldness of a ze...
ἘΔΙΚΑΙΏΘΗ. The strict meaning of δικαιοῦν is to make δίκαιος, so to justify or acquit. The further meaning ‘to regard as righteous’ is not etymologically justifiable and rests on supposed theological...
14–26. THE RELATION BETWEEN ΠΊΣΤΙΣ AND ἜΡΓΑ:—a subject suggested by the preceding paragraph, but also probably by one of the questions referred to St James for solution. Such questions were frequently...
_GOD ILLUSTRATED SAVING FAITH -- JAMES 2:19-26:_ The demons prove that a faith that does not reflect itself in works cannot save. "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils als...
ΈΔΙΚΑΙΏΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΔΙΚΑΙΌΩ (G1344) провозглашать праведным, объявлять правым, оправдывать (TDNT; Romans 2:13; Bengel; Lenski). ΆΝΕΝΈΓΚΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΑΝΑΦΈΡΩ (G399) предлагать, же...
WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER JUSTIFIED— "Take an instance of the truth of what I have advanced under Divine inspiration, in the most celebrated of all the patriarchs; I mean, the instance of Abraham, ou...
FAITH-ONLY DOES NOT JUSTIFY (EXAMPLE NO. 2) _Text 2:21-24_ James 2:21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22. Thou seest that faith...
CHAPTER V. _THE DEVIL'S FAITH_ James 2:14-26 _Introduction_ Faith has come to mean some kind of magic word by which men shall do the impossible, even to the acquisition of heaven. The word really m...
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? ABRAHAM OUR FATHER JUSTIFIED BY WORKS - evidentially before men (note, James 2:18). In James 2:23 Ja...
VERSE 21 WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER JUSTIFIED BY WORKS? You, brethren, are of Hebrew descent, and as such I assume that you remember the history of our progenitor, so sacredly and carefully taught you...
20 The case of Abraham is most helpful in further defining the distinct viewpoints of Paul and James. The former refers us to the fifteenth chapter of Genesis, the latter to the twenty-second. In the...
2:21 by (f-7) _ Ek_ , as ver.18....
WARNINGS AGAINST RESPECT OF PERSONS. BELIEF AND PRACTICE 1. Another instance of inconsistency. JESUS CHRIST _the Lord_ OF GLORY] better, 'Jesus Christ the glory,' or 'the glorious one,' One of the ra...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 2 RESPECT OF PERSONS 2:1-7 V1 My Christian brothers and sisters, you trust th...
WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER JUSTIFIED BY WORKS...? — St. James now addresses his two examples from familiar history in force of his plea for active faith. The first is the marvellous devotion and trust...
(14-26) FAITH AND WORKS. — We now enter on the most debatable ground of the Epistle; a battle-field strewn with the bones and weapons of countless adversaries. It is an easy thing to shoot “arrows, ev...
James 2:21; James 2:25 CHAPTER 13 THE FAITH OF THE DEMONS; THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM; AND THE FAITH OF RAHAB THE HARLOT. James 2:19; James 2:21;...
CHAPTER 12 FAITH AND WORKS: THREE VIEWS OF THE RELATION, OF THE TEACHING OF ST. JAMES TO THE TEACHING OF ST. PAUL-THE RELATION OF LUTHER TO BOTH. James 2:14 "What doth it profit, my brethren, if a m...
Ἀβραὰμ ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν : A stereotyped phrase in Jewish literature. οὐκ ἐξ ἔργων ἐδικαιώθη : the writer is referring to the well-known Jewish doctrine of זכות (_Zecûth_), on this subject see Introduction...
On this section see Introduction IV., § 2. There are a few points worth drawing attention to, in connection with the subject treated of in these verses, before we come to deal with the passage in deta...
DEEDS THE EVIDENCE OF FAITH James 2:14 The Apostle is speaking here of a faith that does not result in a changed life. It is the faith which believes _about_ Jesus Christ, as distinguished from that...
Proceeding, James dealt with the effect of faith on conduct. It makes it impossible to show any respect of persons on the ground of the possession of worldly wealth. To show such respect shows that th...
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD James wanted his objectors to acknowledge the obvious truth that faith without works is dead. Woods says "foolish man" literally means "an empty-headed fellow" (James 2:20)...
Was not Abraham our father (k) justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? (k) Was he not by his works known and found to be justified? For he speaks not here of the causes...
Was not Abraham....justified by works? We may observe, that St. James here brings the very same examples of Abraham and Rahab, which it is likely he knew some had miscontrued in St. Paul, as if the g...
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? (15) If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, (16) And one of you say unt...
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...
21_Was not Abraham_. The Sophists lay hold on the word _justified_, and then they cry out as being victorious, that justification is partly by works. But we ought to seek out a right interpretation ac...
The apostle now enters on the subject of those who professed to believe that Jesus was Christ the Lord. Before, in Chapter 1, he had spoken of the new nature in connection with God: here the professio...
WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER JUSTIFIED BY WORKS,.... Not as the causes of his justification, that is denied, Romans 4:2 but as effects of it, showing the truth of his faith, and the reality of his justi...
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Ver. 21. _Justified by works_] _sc._ _Declarative et in fore humano, _ but not before God,Romans 3:2....
_Was not_, &c. As if he had said, Take an instance of this in the most celebrated of all the patriarchs, _our father Abraham._ Was not he _justified by works_ Did not his works manifest the truth and...
The first 13 verses of this chapter form a second division of the book, dealing with the faith of Christ as being above all personal considerations, perfectly true and impartial. To mix the faith of C...
Discuss: Abraham's faith. Was Abraham justified by faith OR by works? What did the sacrifice of Isaac show about the faith of Abraham? See Romans 4:1-12. Is there a contradiction between Romans and Ja...
THE FAITH THAT SAVES James 2:21 "Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?" "Was not Abraham our father" -James introduces. Biblical example (an app...
14-26 Those are wrong who put a mere notional belief of the gospel for the whole of evangelical religion, as many now do. No doubt, true faith alone, whereby men have part in Christ's righteousness,...
WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER; not only the father of us as Jews, (for to them he wrote), and according to the flesh, but as believers, and according to the promise; so all believers are called Abraham's...
James 2:21 Was G1344 not G3756 Abraham G11 our G2257 father G3962 justified G1344 (G5681) by G1537 works...
‘Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?' He then takes the example of Abraham, the first man who is said to have had ‘faith', the Abraham of w...
The Reply Comes, ‘But Surely If We Have Faith That Is Enough. Will We Not Be Seen To Be Righteous Because We Have Faith In Christ? Then Surely It Does Not Really Matter How We Behave Towards Others'....
James 2:21. James now adduces two examples those of Abraham and Rahab to prove the truth of his assertion that faith can only save if it is productive of good works. And, first, the example of Abraham...
James 2:14-26. In this passage James continues to enforce practical religion. He tells his readers that faith destitute of works is of no avail to the saving of the soul, and is as useless as a charit...
JUSTIFIED BY WORKS (εξ εργων εδικαιωθη). First aorist passive indicative of δικαιοω (see Galatians and Romans for this verb, to declare righteous, to set right) in a question with ουκ expecting an a...
JUSTIFIED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 4:2). _...
CONTENTS: The tests of brotherly love and good words. Justification before men by our works. CHARACTERS: Christ, James, Abraham, Isaac, Rahab. CONCLUSION: Those who are possessors of Christ's salvat...
James 2:1. _Have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons._ See James 1:1. The whole of this chapter turns on charity, which is the excellence of pure religio...
HOW? "Our ancestor Abraham is an example of what I am talking about. IT WAS THROUGH HIS ACTIONS. "The whole life of Abraham was living proof the he believed God! I especially point you to the incident...
JAMES 2:14 Faith without Works Is Dead. James continues the theme that hearing/faith must lead to doing/works. It may seem that James contradicts Paul’s “by grace you have been saved through faith......
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 2:21 ABRAHAM... JUSTIFIED BY WORKS. James may seem to contradict Paul here (compare Romans 4:2). However, while Paul cites...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 2:22. MADE PERFECT.—Or, “a complete, and therefore acceptable, thing.” James 2:23. IMPUTED.—“Was accounted as equivalent to righteousness.” His willingness to d...
EXPOSITION JAMES 2:1 WARNING AGAINST RESPECT OF PERSONS. JAMES 2:1 The translation is doubtful, two renderings being possible. (1) That of the A.V. and R.
Now my brothers, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons (James 2:1). This is so difficult. It is so easy for us to fall in the trap of respecting pers...
Acts 7:2; Genesis 22:16; Genesis 22:9; Isaiah 51:2; James 2:18;...
When he had offered [α ν ε ν ε γ κ α ς]. Incorrect. For the participle states the ground of his justification. By works gives the general ground; offered, etc., the specific work. Compare Genesis 22:1...
Was not Abraham justified by works — St. Paul says he was justified by faith, Romans 4:2, &c.: yet St. James does not contradict him; for he does not speak of the same justification. St. Paul speaks o...
If Abraham was saved by works, why does the Bible say he was justified by faith? PROBLEM: Paul clearly teaches that we are justified by faith and not by works (Romans 1:17). He declared, “But to him w...