‘For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every worthless deed.'
For jealousy and selfish ambition and self-assertiveness simply produce confusion and worthless, useless and vain practises and a church at war with itself (contrast 1 Corinthians 14:33). Jealous people and people who are selfishly ambitious make the truth secondary to the fulfilment of their desires.
Verse 16. _FOR WHERE ENVYING AND STRIFE_ IS] ζηλοςκαιεριθεια. _Zeal_-fiery, inflammatory passion, and _contention_-altercations about the different points of the law, of no use for edification, such...
FOR WHERE ENVYING AND STRIFE IS, THERE IS CONFUSION - Margin, tumult or unquietness. Everything is unsettled and agitated. There is no mutual confidence; there is no union of plan and effort; there is...
III. THE EVILS OF THE TONGUE CORRECTED CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The tongue and its work (James 3:1)_ 2. The wisdom which is earthly and the wisdom that is from above (James 3:13) James 3:1 The practical cha...
Who is enlightened among you, and a man of knowledge? Let him exhibit the fruits of it by a noble life, with the humility that true enlightenment brings. We must be careful to remember that meekness i...
Such wisdom is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but is earthly, characteristic of the natural man, inspired by the devil. For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and...
THE TEACHER'S PERIL (James 3:1) _ 3:1 My brothers, it is a mistake for many of you to become teachers, for you must be well aware that those of us who teach will receive a greater condemnation._ In...
CONFUSION. commotion, or unrest. Greek. _akatastasia._ See Luke 21:9. Compare James 3:8. EVIL. Greek. _phaulos_. See John 3:20....
_envying and strife_ Better, as before, ENVY AND RIVALRY. See note on James 3:14. _there is confusion and every evil work_ On the first word see note on James 3:8. It describes here the chaotic turbul...
ἈΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΊΑ, opposed to the εἰρήνη of the heavenly wisdom and especially characteristic of the zealots. Comp. οὐ γάρ ἐστιν�, ἀλλʼ εἰρήνης, 1 Corinthians 14:33. ΠΑ͂Ν ΦΑΥ͂ΛΟΝ ΠΡΑ͂ΓΜΑ, comp. πᾶς γὰρ ὁ φα...
13–18. BUT BESIDES THE EFFECT AND DANGERS OF SPEECH, THE TOPIC OF TEACHING SUGGESTS ANOTHER POINT—THE POSSESSION AND USE OF WISDOM. HENCE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TRUE WISDOM AND THE FALSE WISDOM...
_CONCERN FOR TRUE WISDOM -- JAMES 3:13-18:_ If one is to be a teacher of God's word he must be a truly wise person. True wisdom is found only in those of Christ-like character. A correct, consistent,...
ΑΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΊΑ (G181) беспорядок, волнение, нестабильность. Иногда это слово несет в себе политические ассоциации: "анархия". Здесь речь может идти о беспорядках, вызванных теми, кто своей ложной мудрост...
THE SOURCE OF FACTION _Text 3:14-16_ James 3:14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15. This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down...
_THIRTEEN THREE-POINT SERMON STARTERS_ WISDOM DEMONSTRATED James 3:13 Introduction: We are here for the purpose of demonstrating wisdom and understanding in the ways of God. 1. How we show it. (By...
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. ENVYING - Greek, 'zeal,' 'emulation' (note, James 3:14; Romans 13:13). 'The envious man stands in his own light. He thinks h...
VERSE 16. FOR WHERE ENVYING AND STRIFE IS. A general truth is here stated, and recognized to be such by all the observant. Where the evil dispositions of envy and strife exist, as a necessary consequ...
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...
THE CONTROL OF THE TONGUE 1, 2. Warning against undue eagerness to teach: cp. Matthew 12:37; Matthew 23:7; Romans 2:19; 1 Corinth
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 3 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER 3:1-5A V1 My Christian brothers and sisters,...
FOR WHERE ENVYING AND STRIFE IS, THERE IS CONFUSION. — Where emulation, zeal, and rivalry exist, there also are sedition, anarchy, restless disturbance, and every villainous act. The whole state is ev...
CHAPTER 16 THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM BELOW. James 3:13 THIS section, which again looks at first sight like an abrupt transition to another subject, is found, upon closer examination, to grow quite nat...
James 3:1-18 form a self-contained section; the subject dealt with is the bridling of the tongue, see above James 1:19; James 1:26-27....
πᾶν φαῦλον πρᾶγμα : this sums up the matter; _cf._ John 3:20, πᾶς γὰρ ὁ φαῦλα πράσσων μισεῖ τὸ φῶς, and with this one might compare again the words in our Epistle, James 1:17, πᾶσα δόσις ἀγαθὴ … ἄνωθέ...
SEEK WISDOM FROM ABOVE James 3:13 The true wisdom is not the child of the intellect, but of the heart. It consists not only in what we know, but in what we are. It is in this sense that it is used in...
The writer now proceeded to show the effect of faith on speech. Beginning with the warning against every man setting up to teach, he proceeded to deal with the power of speech. He likened the tongue t...
A WISDOM FROM THE DEVIL Some of those rushing to be teachers may have claimed great book knowledge. They may also have claimed to have wisdom, or the ability to apply knowledge. The test of that comes...
But if you have bitter zeal. He hints at that bitter, false zeal, which many teachers among the Jews, even after their conversion, were apt to retain against the converted Gentiles, pretending with li...
(15) This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. (16) For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (17) But the wisdom that is from above is f...
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...
16_For where envying is_. It is an argument from what is contrary; for envying, by which hypocrites are influenced, produces effects contrary to wisdom. For wisdom requires a state of mind that is cal...
In Chapter 3 the apostle recurs to the tongue, the most ready index to the heart, the proof whether the new man is inaction, whether nature and self-will are under restraint. But there is hardly anyth...
Ver. 16 FOR WHERE ENVYING AND STRIFE IS,.... Where these are cherished in the heart, and especially where they break out into action, in families, neighbourhoods, states, or churches: THERE IS CONFUS...
For where envying and strife _is_, there _is_ confusion and every evil work. Ver. 16. _For where envying and strife is, &c._] The number of two hath been therefore accounted accursed, because it was...
_Who is a wise man_, &c. People are naturally desirous of the reputation of possessing an understanding superior to that of others. Now, let us consider in what way the sense we have may be best manif...
Warning against strife:...
FOR WHERE ENVYING AND STRIFE IS, THERE IS CONFUSION AND EVERY EVIL WORK....
Here we begin a fourth division of the book, which continues to the end of Ch.4; in which our walk is tested by the circumstances of the world. Certainly in the previous Chapter s there is emphasis al...
What is “every evil thing”? Study 1 Thessalonians 5:22. What is the confusion mentioned here? How do envy and self-seeking lead to evil things?...
CONFUSION: _ Gr._ tumult or unquietness...
"For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing." "there is" -and not, there might be or could be. One cannot practice such earthly wisdom without harming self,...
13-18 These verses show the difference between men's pretending to be wise, and their being really so. He who thinks well, or he who talks well, is not wise in the sense of the Scripture, if he does...
FOR WHERE ENVYING AND STRIFE IS; the usual companions of this devilish wisdom. THERE IS CONFUSION; or, inconsistency, viz. both with man's self and others; envy makes him unqniet in himself, and troub...
James 3:16 For G1063 where G3699 envy G2205 and G2532 self-seeking G2052 confusion G181 and G2532 every G3956 evil...
James 3:16. FOR, the reason assigned for the above description of earthly wisdom, WHERE ENVYING AND STRIFE IS; where zeal (in a bad sense) and party-strife are, THERE IS CONFUSION AND EVERY EVIL WORK...
CONFUSION (ακαταστασια). Late word (from ακαταστατος), James 1:8; James 3:8), a state of disorder (1 Corinthians 14:33).VILE (φαυλον). Kin to German _faul_, first slight, ordinary, then bad. The s...
CONTENTS: Control of the tongue. CHARACTERS: God, James. CONCLUSION: The Christian who is not affected by the sins of the tongue but takes care to avoid them, has an undoubted sign of true grace. Th...
James 3:1. _Be not many masters:_ διδασκαλοι, teachers. In some assemblies they might all prophesy one by one, but no man should be too forward; he will never shine as a teacher, unless he _be_ a teac...
WHERE. "Where there is jealousy because of opinions and selfishness which brings _party spirit_ in defending them, there you will also find disorder (Acts 17:5) and every kind of evil deed....
_This wisdom descendeth not from above_ THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM BELOW There are two characteristics here specified which we shall find are given as the infallible signs of the heavenly wisdom; and t...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 3:16 DISORDER describes the chaotic frenzy of fighting in the church (see James 4:1). The related adjective means “unstable” in...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 3:13. GOOD CONVERSATION.—Or, his “good life”; “good conduct.” The usual New Testament idea of “conversation.” James 3:14. STRIFE.—Prefer “rivalry.” James 3:15....
EXPOSITION JAMES 3:1 WARNING AGAINST OVER-READINESS TO TEACH, LEADING TO A DISCOURSE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GOVERNMENT OF
Let's turn to James chapter three. James first of all warns against a desire to teach the Word of God that would stem or emanate just from your own desire to be in front of people or whatever. My bre...
1 Corinthians 14:33; 1 Corinthians 3:3; 1 John 3:12; Acts 19:29;...
Confusion [α κ α τ α σ τ α σ ι α]. See on restless, ver. 8. Evil [φ α υ λ ο ν]. An inadequate rendering, because it fails to bring out the particular phase of evil which is dominant in the word : wort...