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James 4:9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.
Verse 9. _BE AFFLICTED, AND MOURN_] Without true and deep repentance ye cannot expect the mercy of God. _LET YOUR LAUGHTER BE TURNED TO MOURNING_] It appears most evidently that many of those to who...
BE AFFLICTED, AND MOURN, AND WEEP - That is, evidently, on account of your sins. The sins to which the apostle refers are those which he had specified in the previous part of the chapter, and which he...
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...
MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to sorrow, and your joy to gloom. Humble yourself before God an...
BE AFFLICTED. Greek. _talaiporeo._ Only here. Compare James 5:1.Romans 7:24. LAUGHTER. Greek. _gelos._ Only here. BE TURNED. See Acts 2:20. HEAVINESS. Greek. _katepheia._ Only here. It means casti
_Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep_ The words are nearly synonymous, the first pointing to the sense of misery (as in "O _wretched_man that I am" in Romans 7:24), the second to its general effect on d...
The Call to Repentance 8. _Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you_ The "nearness to God," to which the promise is attached, is primarily that which is involved in all true and earnest prayer,...
CH. 4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
ΕἸΣ ΚΑΤΉΦΕΙΑΝ, ‘to heaviness,’ R.V., or dejection, κατήφεια, defined to be a mixture of shame and grief, lit. with downcast eye, perhaps from κατά and φάος, but deriv. uncertain. This is the natural e...
_DO NOT BE GUILTY OF WORLDLINESS-- JAMES 4:6-10:_ James said, "God resisteth the proud." Pride is the great hindrance to righteousness. Pride leads the list of the seven things God hates. (Proverbs 6:...
ΤΑΛΑΙΠΩΡΉΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΤΑΛΑΙΠΩΡΈΩ (G5003) претерпевать трудности, сносить нищету. Здесь используется как непереходный: быть нищим, страдать от нищеты, и относится к внутреннему состоянию...
DISCOURSE: 2371 REPENTANCE URGED [Note: For Ash-Wednesday.] James 4:8. _Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. Be af...
BE AFFLICTED, AND MOURN,— We may and ought to rejoice in the Lord, that is, in the consciousness of his favour, and in the prospect of the happiness which is promised in the gospel; but in pride and e...
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...
FROM WHERE WE ARE TO WHERE WE SHOULD BE _Text 4:8b-10_ James 4:8 b. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. James 4:9. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your...
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. BE AFFLICTED ... [ talaipooreesate (G5003)] - endure misery; i:e., mourn over your wretchednes...
VERSE 9 BE AFFLICTED, AND MOURN. Your sins are great. From these a turning away must take place, for deep penitence is required for your sins. Let your laughter be turned into mourning. The mirth in...
5 This passage has puzzled the commentators, and there are many and various explanations offered to solve what seems to be one of the most difficult passages in the Scriptures. A simple explanation, w...
4:9 wretched, (a-2) 'Have it done,' not 'be doing it;' the aorist tense. All the imperatives (ten) from vers. 7 to 10 are in the aorist....
HEAVINESS] better, 'dejection.'...
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...
BE AFFLICTED, AND MOURN, AND WEEP. — For wretchedness, sorrow, and tears are the three steps of the homeward way to peace and God. And in proof of real conversion there must be the outward lamentation...
CHAPTER 20 THE POWER OF SATAN AND ITS LIMITS-HUMILITY THE FOUNDATION OF PENITENCE AND OF HOLINESS. James 4:7 SUBMISSION to God is the beginning, middle, and end of the prodigal's return from disastr...
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...
ταλαιπωρήσατε : ἅπ. λεγ. in N.T. _cf._ Micah 2:4; Jeremiah 4:13; “undergo hardship”; it was a recognised tenet in Jewish theology that self-inflicted punishment of any kind was a means of reconciliati...
“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...
HUMBLE SELF BEFORE GOD TO BE UPLIFTED The desire for cleansing begins with sorrow for sin. It continues with one's repentance (James 4:9). Such is demonstrated by David after he acknowledged sinning...
(6) Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to (a) heaviness. (6) He goes on in the same comparison of opposites, and contrasts those profane joys w...
_Be afflicted [4] and mourn, and deplore your sins against his divine majesty; punish yourselves, and think not that a mere change of life is sufficient after so many sins committed. (Witham)_ [BIBLI...
(7) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doub...
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...
9_Be afflicted and mourn_. Christ denounces mourning on those who laugh, as a curse, (Luke 6:25;) and James, in what shortly follows, alluding to the same words, threatens the rich with mourning. But...
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...
BE AFFLICTED, AND MOURN, AND WEEP,.... Not in a bare external way; not by afflicting the body with fastings and scourgings, by renting of garments, and clothing with sackcloth, and putting ashes on th...
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and _your_ joy to heaviness. Ver. 9. _Be afflicted_] ταλαιπωρησατε. or, Be miserable; ye are so, but see yourselves to be s...
_But he_ God, _giveth more grace_ To all those who, while they shun those tempers, sincerely and earnestly pray for it. _Wherefore he saith_, [see the margins] _God, resisteth the proud_ The unhumbled...
BE AFFLICTED; in view of your sins, and the judgments of God that are hanging over you. See note to chap James 5:1....
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...
Why should we - lament, mourn and weep? Is laughter wrong? Why is laughter spoken against in this verse? Should Christians avoid joy and laughter? Are Christians to be filled with “gloom and doom” att...
"Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy to gloom."Be miserable" -Notice the word 'be'. This must be. voluntary mourning. True repentance, in the end c...
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...
BE AFFLICTED; humble yourselves for your sins, before mentioned, and in the sense of wrath approaching, if ye do not. AND MOURN, with inward sorrow of heart. AND WEEP; show your inward grief by weepin...
James 4:9 Lament G5003 (G5657) and G2532 mourn G3996 (G5657) and G2532 weep G2799 (G5657) your...
‘Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.' Included within the way of cleansing is true repentance in tears. They are, as it were, to have...
AS A CONSEQUENCE THEY ARE TO SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO GOD, RESIST THE DEVIL, AND DRAW NEAR TO GOD BY PURIFYING THEMSELVES AND TRULY REPENTING (JAMES 4:6). The condition of some of God's professed people...
James 4:9. BE AFFLICTED, AND MOURN, AND WEEP namely, over your envy and hatred, your strifes and contentions, and the miseries occasioned by them. The epithets ‘sinners' and ‘double-minded' imply the...
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...
BE AFFLICTED (ταλαιπωρησατε). First aorist active imperative ταλαιπωρεω, old verb from ταλαιπωρος (Romans 7:24), to endure toils, here only in N.T. Cf. ταλαιπωριαις in James 5:1.MOURN (πενθησατε)....
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...
BE SORROWFUL! These words show the contrast between the vulgar gaiety of the pleasure-seeker, and the humility of the one who has turned away from sin and turned to God. Joel 2:12-13. [This does not m...
_Submit yourselves therefore to God_ SUBMITTING OURSELVES TO GOD I. THE DUTY OF SUBMITTING OURSELVES TO GOD. This submission has its commencement and abiding root in the reception of Christ as a Savi...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:8 CLEANSE and PURIFY are OT terms for ritual purity and ethical purity. LAUGHTER shows how casually James’s readers were treating their sin. The only proper reaction
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 4:5.—The precise rendering is doubtful. There is no passage either in the Canonical or Apocryphal Scriptures that is here referred to. The _Revised Version_ gives...
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,...
2 Corinthians 7:10; 2 Corinthians 7:11; Ecclesiastes 2:2; Ecclesiastes 7:2;...
Be afflicted [τ α λ α ι π ω ρ η σ α τ ε]. Only here in New Testament. The kindred noun talaipwria, misery, occurs ch. 5 1. Mourn [π ε ν θ η σ α τ ε]. Used of grief that is manifested. So mostly in New...
Be afflicted — For your past unfaithfulness to God....
The next duty we are exhorted to by the apostle, is. deep humiliation, and. voluntary affliction of our souls before God for sin, and upon the account of any calamity, either on ourselves or others. L...