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James 4:4
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.
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.
JAMES 4:4 moicali,dej {A} In scriptural imagery, moicali,j (“adulteress”) is used figuratively of Israel as the unfaithful spouse of Jehovah (cf. Psalms 73:27;...
Verse James 4:4. _YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES_] The Jews, because of their _covenant_ with God, are represented as being _espoused_ to him; and hence their idolatry, and their iniquity in general,...
YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES - These words are frequently used to denote those who are faithless towards God, and are frequently applied to those who forsake God for idols, Hosea 3:1; Isaiah 57:3, I...
IV. FURTHER EXHORTATIONS TO RIGHT LIVING CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Fightings and worldliness rebuked (James 4:1)_ 2. The Godly walk (James 4:7) James 4:1 A strong rebuke follows the statements concerning the...
The climax of the last paragraph leads to a diagnosis of the disease that poisoned quarrelsome Jewish communities. Faction fights were the logical outcome of unbridled passions; they campaign against...
Renegades to your vows, do you not know that love for this world is enmity to God? Whoever makes it his aim to be the friend of this world thereby becomes the enemy of God. Do you think that the sayin...
MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
YE ADULTERERS AND. The texts omit. ADULTERESSES. Compare Matthew 12:39; Jeremiah 3:9; Ezekiel 16; Ezekiel 23.
_Ye adulterers and adulteresses_ The better MSS. give YE ADULTERESSES only. The use of the feminine alone in this connexion, where the persons referred to are primarily men, is at first startling. It...
CH. 4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
The omission of μοιχοὶ καί is supported by א* AB and some important versions. Old Latin _fornicatores_, Vulgate _adulteri._ The words are included in אcKLP and later authorities. 4. ΜΟΙΧΑΛΊΔΕΣ, for th...
_DO NOT BE FILLED WITH PRIDE -- JAMES 4:1-5 :_ Here James deals with the source or origin of altercations among brethren. He listed as causes of these wars and fightings: (1) a lust after worldly thin...
ΜΟΙΧΑΛΊΔΕΣ _voc. pl._ от ΜΟΙΧΑΛΊΣ (G3428) прелюбодейка, женщина, не верная брачному обету. Это устойчивый термин, который часто используется в ВЗ (особ, в Осии; THAT, 1:518-20; TD0T, 4:99-104) для обо...
DISCOURSE: 2370 FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD IS ENMITY WITH GOD James 4:4. _Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a f...
YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES,— Great wickedness, and especially _idolatry,_ among the Jews, is often represented as _adultery._ What follows in this verse shews, that by adultery St. James meant _sp...
CHAPTER VIII _CAUSE AND REMEDY OF STRIFE_ James 4:1-12 _Introduction_ Can it be possible that the church of Jesus Christ could descend to the sins mentioned here so soon after Pentecost? In less th...
DEDICATION TO GOD ALONE IS THE ONLY ANSWER _Text 4:4-8a_ James 4:4. Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the wo...
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. 'Aleph (') A B omit "adultere...
VERSE 4 YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES. The word "adulteresses" does not occur in the Syriac, neither does it appear in the Latin Vulgate. Singular to say, the word "adulterers" does not appear in Rot...
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...
4:4 God? (h-13) Lit. 'the friendship of the world is enmity of God;' but it is the state as between the parties, in English 'with.' In what follows, the same construction in Greek, it is taken up as '...
ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES] RV 'adulteresses' (without 'adulterers and'), meaning, of course, those who have forsaken God. The thought is very common in the OT. (Isaiah 57:3; Jeremiah 3:20; Ezekiel 1...
DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 4 DESIRES AND DIVISIONS 4:1-10 V1 You know where all the fights and quarrels...
YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES. — The phrase may seem to flow naturally after the former ones, but the Received text, from which our version was made, is wrong. It should be, _ye adulteresses_! as acc...
CHAPTER 19 THE SEDUCTIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE JEALOUSY OF THE DIVINE LOVE. James 4:4 THE Revisers are certainly right in rejecting, without even mention in the margin, the reading, "Ye adulterers a...
CHAPTER 18 ST. JAMES AND PLATO ON LUSTS AS THE CAUSES OF STRIFE; THEIR EFFECT ON PRAYER. James 4:1 THE change from the close of the third chapter to the beginning of the fourth is startling. St. Jam...
μοιχαλίδες : the weight of evidence is strongly in favour of this reading as against μοιχοὶ καὶ μοιχαλίδες. The depraved state of morals to which the whole section bears witness must in part at least...
“DRAW NIGH TO GOD” James 4:1 The Apostle returns to “the jealousy and faction” of the previous chapter, James 3:14, and says that these evils are traceable to _lust_, that is, to inordinate desire. T...
The writer now dealt with the effect of faith on character. Everything depends on desire. To attempt to satisfy a natural desire without reference to God is futile, and issues in internal conflict and...
SEEKING TO PLEASE SELF"Lust" is a strong desire for a thing. Certainly, it has caused others to do wicked things. David committed adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband, Uriah, killed to satisfy...
(3) 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. (3) Another reason why such...
_Adulterers: which is here taken in a figurative sense for those who love creatures more than God, the true spouse of their souls; who reflect not that the love and friendship of this world is an enem...
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? (2) Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and...
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...
4_Ye adulterers_. I connect this verse with the foregoing verses: for he calls them _adulterers_, as I think, metaphorically; for they corrupted themselves with the vanities of this world, and alienat...
In all that follows we have still the judgment of unbridled nature, of will in its different forms: contentions that arise from the lusts of the natural heart; request made to God proceeding from the...
YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES,.... Not who were literally such, but in a figurative and metaphorical sense: as he is an adulterer that removes his affections from his own wife, and sets them upon ano...
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. Ver. 4. _Ye adulterers and adul...
_Ye adulterers and adulteresses_ Who have broken your faith with God, your rightful spouse. Thus many understand these expressions, because God himself represented his relation to the Jews as his peop...
YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES; the sin of adultery stands here as the embodiment of all the fleshly lusts in which these unworthy professors of Christianity indulged. The same sin is charged by the a...
This chapter, to the end of v.6, continues the subject begun in Ch.3:13. Sensual. devilish wisdom was accompanied by wars and fightings: but this proceeded from the lusts of the flesh active within th...
Who are the adulterers and adulteresses in this verse? Are these words literal or use in a figurative sense? In what ways are we friends with the world? What should be the relationship of the Christia...
"You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be. friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."You adulteresses" -"Unfait...
1-10 Since all wars and fightings come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in the members. Wordly and fleshly lusts are distempers, which will not allo...
YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES; he means adulterers and adulteresses in a spiritual sense, i.e. worldly-minded Christians, who being, by profession, married to the Lord, yet gave up those affections t...
James 4:4 Adulterers G3432 and G2532 adulteresses G3428 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 friendship G5373 world...
‘You adulteresses. Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.' Thus they are also like adulter...
IN CONTRAST TO THOSE WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM ABOVE ARE THOSE WHO YIELD TO THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH AND SEEK TO BE FRIENDS OF A WORLD WHICH IGNORES CHRIST (JAMES 4:1). Having spoken o...
James 4:4. YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES. The best manuscripts read only ‘ye adulteresses,' a reading more suitable to the metaphor employed. This appellation might be taken literally, it we referred...
James 4:1-12. St. James warns his readers against those evil passions which gave rise to wars and fightings among them. They must moderate their desires, and guard against self-gratification. If they...
YE ADULTERESSES (μοιχαλιδες). Μοιχο κα (ye adulterers) is spurious (Syrian text only). The feminine form here is a common late word from the masculine μοιχο. It is not clear whether the word is to b...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos" means "world-system". (2 Peter 1:4); (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8). _...
James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ Whether between nations, or parties or individuals,-if there be wars and fightings, whence do they come? James 4:1. _Come they not hence,...
CONTENTS: Rebuke of worldliness and exhortation to humility before God. CHARACTERS: God, Satan. CONCLUSION: Worldly and fleshly lusts are the distemper which will not allow contentment or satisfacti...
James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ St. James saw in the Spirit the bloody and cruel wars which would rise among christian powers, much the same as among the heathen. He had a...
UNFAITHFUL PEOPLE! "As an adulterous wife is unfaithful to her husband, so your spiritual adultery is unfaithful to your God!" DON'T YOU KNOW? "You gain the friendship of worldly people by sharing in...
_The friendship of the world is enmity with God_ THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD ENMITY WITH GOD I. WHAT WE ARE TO UNDERSTAND BY THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD. 1. In what sense the word “world” is to be...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:4 ADULTEROUS PEOPLE. Old Testament prophets used this language to describe Israel’s unfaithfulness to God (Jeremiah 2:20;...
THE LOWER AND THE HIGHER LIFE _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 4:1. LUSTS.—Pleasures, but viewed on their evil side. _Desires_ that are ill regulated. Compare 1 Peter 2:11; Romans 7:23. Evidentl...
EXPOSITION JAMES 4:1 REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED. A terribly sadden transition from the "peace" with which James 3:1. closed....
This chapter could be entitled how to win friends and influence people. Guard your tongue, bring your tongue under control, use it for good, use it to encourage to build up, don't use it to tear down,...
1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; Galatians 1:10; Genesis 3:15; Hosea 3:1;...
Ye adulterers [μ ο ι χ ο ι] All the best texts omit. Adulteresses [μ ο ι χ α λ ι δ ε ς]. The feminine term is the general designation of all whom James here rebukes. The apostate members of the church...
Ye adulterers and adulteresses — Who have broken your faith with God, your rightful spouse. Know ye not that the friendship or love of the world — The desire of the flesh, the desire of the eye, and t...
It is spiritual, not corporal adultery, which these words take notice of: the inordinate love of this world is called spiritual adultery; because it draws away the love of the soul from God, and disso...