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James 2:22
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Verse 22. _SEEST THOU HOW FAITH WROUGHT_] Here is a proof that faith cannot exist without being active in works of righteousness. His faith in God would have been of no avail to him, had it not been...
SEEST THOU - Margin, “Thou seest.” Either rendering is correct, and the sense is the same. The apostle means to say that this was so plain that they could not but see it. HOW FAITH WROUGHT WITH HIS WO...
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...
SEEST. App-133. WROUGHT WITH. Greek. _sunergeo._ See Romans 8:28. MADE PERFECT. App-125....
_Seest thou how faith wrought with his works …?_ Better, perhaps, not as a question, THOU SEEST THAT … Attention is called, not as the English "how" suggests, to the manner of co-operation, but only t...
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...
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...
22.συνήργει, so W. H. with א*BCKLP and the Vulgate (cooperabatur): συνεργεῖ, Tischendorf with אA and O. L. (communicat). 22. Ἡ ΠΊΣΤΙΣ ΣΥΝΉΡΓΕΙ, FAITH WAS all along COOPERATING WITH. The works were an...
_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...
ΣΥΝΉΡΓΕΙ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΕΡΓΈΩ (G4903) сотрудничать, работать вместе, ΈΤΕΛΕΙΏΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΤΕΛΕΙΌΩ (G5048) доводить до завершения, доводить до зрелости, совершенствовать, заканчиват...
BY WORKS WAS FAITH MADE PERFECT?— Faith is not perfect, without producing good works, wherever there is an opportunity for it, after men have believed: but, in such an instance as that of the thief up...
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...
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...
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? HOW, [ hoti (G3754)] - that. In the two clauses, emphasize "faith" in the former, and "works" in the latter, to se...
VERSE 22 SEEST THOU HOW FAITH WROUGHT WITH HIS WORKS. Abraham proved his faith by what he did towards obedience. And this is the only way faith can be shown. Faith, to be available, must be acted out;...
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...
2:22 by (f-11) _ 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...
SEEST THOU HOW...? — Better taken simply, and not as a question, _Thou seest how,_ &c....
(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...
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...
βλέπεις …: as these words are the deduction drawn from what precedes, it is better to take them in the form of a statement, and not as interrogative. ἡ πίστις συνήρ γει : this implies a certain modifi...
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...
ABRAHAM'S JUSTIFICATION Woods says the word translated "working together" comes "from sunergei, imperfect active of sunergeo, to cooperate with; hence, faith and works kept on cooperating with each ot...
Seest thou how faith (l) wrought with his works, and by works was faith made (m) perfect? (l) Was effectual and fruitful with good works. (m) That the faith was declared to be a true faith, through...
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...
22_By works was faith made perfect _(119) By this he again shews, that the question here is not respecting the cause of our salvation, but whether works necessarily accompany faith; for in this sense...
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...
SEEST THOU HOW FAITH WROUGHT WITH HIS WORKS,.... Not to justify him before God; for neither faith nor works are ever said in Scripture to justify any man; but his faith being of the right kind, a fait...
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? Ver. 22. _Wrought with his works_] Or, was a help to his works, and was her own midwife to bring them forth of hersel...
_Seest thou_ Or _thou seest_ then, in this instance; _how faith wrought_ together _with his works_ And animated him to great zeal and self-denial in them. Therefore faith has one energy and operation,...
MADE PERFECT; shown to be complete, of the right kind, by producing its appropriate fruit....
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...
How does faith function together with works? How is faith made perfect by our works? See Galatians 5:6 - “faith working by love”...
SEEST THOU: Or, thou seest...
"You see that faith was working with his works, and as. result of the works, faith was perfected;" "faith was working with his works" -"It was easy to see, in this historic incident, that Abraham's fa...
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,...
SEEST THOU HOW FAITH WROUGHT WITH HIS WORKS? He doth not say, works wrought with his faith, as he should have said, if he had intended their concurrence in justification; but FAITH WROUGHT WITH HIS WO...
James 2:22 see G991 (G5719) that G3754 faith G4102 together G4903 (G5707) his G846 works G2041 and...
‘You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect (brought to completeness).' And not only did his works reveal that he really was righteous through faith, something that...
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 2:22. SEEST THOU HOW, or, more correctly, ‘thou seest that,' FAITH WROUGHT, cooperated, WITH HIS WORKS. This cannot mean that works cooperated with his faith in the matter of his justification b...
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...
THOU SEEST (βλεπεις). Obvious enough with any eyes to see. This may be a question, seest thou?WROUGHT WITH (συνηργε). Imperfect active of συνεργεω, old verb for which see Romans 8:28. Followed by...
PERFECT (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
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...
CAN'T YOU SEE? This is emphatic! WORKED TOGETHER. _Lightfoot_ says that these words "bridge over the gulf which seems to separate the language of St. Paul and St. James. Both assert a principle of pra...
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 2:22 FAITH WAS COMPLETED BY HIS WORKS. James does not disagree that faith alone saves (Romans 3:28). “Completed” often means “bring to maturity.” Full-grown and
_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...
1 John 2:5; 1 John 4:17; 1 John 4:18; Galatians 5:6; Hebrews 11:17;...
Wrought with his works [σ υ ν η ρ γ ε ι τ ο ι ς ε ρ γ ο ι ς]. There is a play on the words in the Greek : worked with his works....
Thou seest that faith — For by faith Abraham offered him, Hebrews 11:17. Wrought together with his works — Therefore faith has one energy and operation; works, another: and the energy and operation of...