James 4:1-5
CAUTION AGAINST WORLDLY-MINDEDNESS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. Against a lustful, quarrelsome disposition:... [ Continue Reading ]
CAUTION AGAINST WORLDLY-MINDEDNESS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. Against a lustful, quarrelsome disposition:... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM WHENCE COME WARS AND FIGHTINGS AMONG YOU? COME THEY NOT HENCE, EVEN OF YOUR LUSTS THAT WAR IN YOUR MEMBERS?... [ Continue Reading ]
YE LUST AND HAVE NOT; YE KILL, AND DESIRE TO HAVE, AND CANNOT OBTAIN; YE FIGHT AND WAR, YET YE HAVE NOT, BECAUSE YE ASK NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE ASK, AND RECEIVE NOT, BECAUSE YE ASK AMISS, THAT YE MAY CONSUME IT UPON YOUR LUSTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES, KNOW YE NOT THAT THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD IS ENMITY WITH GOD? WHOSOEVER, THEREFORE, WILL BE A FRIEND OF THE WORLD IS THE ENEMY OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
DO YE THINK THAT THE SCRIPTURE SAITH IN VAIN, THE SPIRIT THAT DWELLETH IN US LUSTETH TO ENVY? The tenor of this chapter is such as to have called forth the following remarks: "These verses reveal an appalling state of moral depravity in the Diaspora congregations; strife, self-indulgence, lust, murd... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE GIVETH MORE GRACE. WHEREFORE HE SAITH, GOD RESISTETH THE PROUD, BUT GIVETH GRACE UNTO THE HUMBLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
A humble state of mind demanded of Christians:... [ Continue Reading ]
SUBMIT YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, TO GOD. RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
DRAW NIGH TO GOD, AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU. CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YE SINNERS; AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS, YE DOUBLE MINDED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE AFFLICTED, AND MOURN, AND WEEP; LET YOUR LAUGHTER BE TURNED TO MOURNING AND YOUR JOY TO HEAVINESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND HE SHALL LIFT YOU UP. All sins may be said to have their root and origin in the pride of the human heart, which refuses to bow to the will of the Lord. Christians, therefore, will deny themselves and depend upon the help promised from above: But He giv... [ Continue Reading ]
SPEAK NOT EVIL ONE OF ANOTHER, BRETHREN. HE THAT SPEAKETH EVIL OF HIS BROTHER, AND JUDGETH HIS BROTHER, SPEAKETH EVIL OF THE LAW, AND JUDGETH THE LAW; BUT IF THOU JUDGE THE LAW, THOU ART NOT A DOER OF THE LAW, BUT A JUDGE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Against uncharitable judging:... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER, WHO IS ABLE TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY; WHO ART THOU THAT JUDGEST ANOTHER? The humility which is required of Christians will show itself not only in their behavior toward God, but also toward their neighbor. Against the commonest form of transgression in this respect the apostle w... [ Continue Reading ]
GO TO NOW, YE THAT SAY, TODAY OR TOMORROW WE WILL GO INTO SUCH A CITY, AND CONTINUE THERE A YEAR, AND BUY AND SELL, AND GET GAIN,... [ Continue Reading ]
Trust in God's providence essential:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT WHAT SHALL BE ON THE MORROW. FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOR THAT APPEARETH FOR A LITTLE TIME AND THEN VANISHETH AWAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THAT YE OUGHT TO SAY, IF THE LORD WILL, WE SHALL LIVE AND DO THIS OR THAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW YE REJOICE IN YOUR BOASTINGS, ALL SUCH REJOICING IS EVIL.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE TO HIM THAT KNOWETH TO DO GOOD AND DOETH IT NOT, TO HIM IT IS SIN. In the preceding verses the apostle has rebuked the presumption of men both against the Lord and against the brethren. He here speaks of another form of arrogance, one which coolly disregards the Lord's providence and His r... [ Continue Reading ]