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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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SEEST. App-133.
WROUGHT WITH. Greek. _sunergeo._ See Romans 8:28.
MADE PERFECT. App-125....
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2:22 by (f-11) _ Ek_ , as ver.18....
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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SEEST THOU HOW...? — Better taken simply, and not as a question,
_Thou seest how,_ &c....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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,...
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MADE PERFECT; shown to be complete, of the right kind, by producing
its appropriate fruit....
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The example of Abraham and Rahab:...
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SEEST THOU HOW FAITH WROUGHT WITH HIS WORKS, AND BY WORKS WAS FAITH
MADE PERFECT?...
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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...
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How does faith function together with works? How is faith made perfect
by our works? See Galatians 5:6 - “faith working by love”...
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SEEST THOU:
Or, thou seest...
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"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...
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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,...
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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...
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James 2:22 see G991 (G5719) that G3754 faith G4102 together G4903
(G5707) his G846 works G2041 and...
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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'....
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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PERFECT
(_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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......
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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
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_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...
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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.
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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...
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1 John 2:5; 1 John 4:17; 1 John 4:18; Galatians 5:6; Hebrews 11:17;...
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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....
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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...