Verse 15. _WHEN LUST HATH CONCEIVED_] When the evil propensity works unchecked, _it bringeth forth sin_-the evil act between the parties is perpetrated. _AND SIN, WHEN IT IS FINISHED_] When this bre...
THEN WHEN LUST HATH CONCEIVED - Compare Job 15:35. The allusion here is obvious. The meaning is, when the desire which we have naturally is quickened, or made to act, the result is that sin is produce...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. TRIALS AND THE EXERCISE OF FAITH CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Trials and the power of faith (James 1:1)_ 2. The resources of faith (James 1:5) 3. The realization of faith (James 1:9...
The Beatitude on Endurance (_cf. James 5:11_ and note). Trial is still neutral: it is affliction which tests and develops loyalty. But since human nature has a bias towards evil, a trial exerted upon...
Let no man say when he is tempted, "My temptation comes from God." For God himself is untemptable by evil and tempts no man. But temptation comes to every man, because he is lured on and seduced by hi...
GREETINGS (James 1:1) _ 1:1 James, the slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings to the twelve tribes who are scattered throughout the world._ At the very beginning of his letter Ja...
WHEN LUST, &C. = lust, having conceived. SIN. App-128. FINISHED. completely finished. Greek. _apoteleo._ Only here. BRINGETH FORTH. Greek. _apokueo._ Only here and James 1:18. DEATH. See Romans 6:...
_when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin_ The image suggested in the previous verse is developed with an almost startling boldness. The will that yields to desire in so doing engenders evil. A...
Temptation, and its history 12. _Blessed is the man that endureth temptation_ The mode of teaching by Beatitudes reminds us at once of the Sermon on the Mount, with which, it will be seen afterwards,...
2–18. (_a_) TEMPTATION FROM WITHOUT, 2–4; (1) WISDOM, PRAYER, STEDFASTNESS, THE DIVINE HELPS IN TEMPTATION, 5–8; (2) A SPECIAL FORM OF TEMPTATION—OPPRESSION BY THE RICH—THE OLD TESTAMENT PROBLEM OF T...
ἈΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΘΕΙ͂ΣΑ, PERFECTED, OF FALL AGE, MATURE. Comp. _jam matura viro, jam plenis nubilis annis_, Verg. _Aen._ VII. 53. ἈΠΟΚΎΕΙ, brings forth, R.V....
_SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF TRIALS -- JAMES 1:2-17:_ Christians must be "positive" when trials come their way. The man who properly reacts to trials must not react as a pessimist. "My brethren, count it all j...
ΕΊΤΑ (G1534) затем. Это слово вводит практический результат искушения похоти (Ropes), ΣΥΛΛΑΒΟΎΣΑ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΣΥΛΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G4815) беременеть, зачинать. -Если в предыдущем стихе говорит...
DISCOURSE: 2357 SIN THE OFFSPRING OF OUR OWN HEARTS James 1:13. _Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every ma...
THEN WHEN LUST HATH CONCEIVED, &C.— "For the gradation is much more swift and fatal than the generality of mankind are aware: lust having conceived, brings forth _actual_ sin by a speedy birth, where...
_SERMON OUTLINES_ IS TEMPTATION A JOY? James 1:2-4 Proposition: When should a Christian not have joy in temptation, and how could a Christian find joy in temptation? I. Temptation is no joy. A....
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. The guilty union is committed by the will embracing the temptress. "Lust," the harlot, then...
VERSE 15. LUST HATH CONCEIVED. First a begetting and then a bringing forth that is, a birth. Lust is here personified. It is the begetter. Lust entices. Yielding to it is the conception, and the birt...
1 James is never called an apostle and does not write this epistle in that character. Rather, he puts himself in the place of a slave. Hence the epistle is not concerned with authoritative teaching so...
THE POWER OF FAITH UNDER TEMPTATION 1. Servant] better, 'slave.' The word does not suggest any degradation, but only absolute surrender to the Master. St. James's humility prevents the mention of the...
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. INTRODUCTION 1 THE WRITER James is the writer of the letter. But he does not tell us...
THEN WHEN LUST HAVE CONCEIVED.... — Then come the downward steps of ruin — Lust, having conceived, bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. The image well depicts the re...
(12-18) The Apostle returns to the consideration of the afflicted Christian. Such a one has a blessedness, greater infinitely than any earthly happiness, already in possession, and the promise of a fu...
(2-27) Immediately after the salutation, and with more or less a play upon the word which we translate “greeting” (“rejoice,” James 1:1; “count it all joy,” James 1:2) there follow appeals on behalf o...
CHAPTER 8 THE SOURCE OF TEMPTATIONS AND THE REALITY OF SIN THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE DETERMINIST. James 1:12 AFTER the slight digression respecting the short-lived glory of the rich man, St. James ret...
εἶτα : continuing the description of the method of the working of ἐπιθυμία. ἡ ἐπιθυμία συλλαβοῦσα τίκτει ἁμαρτίαν : With this idea of personification, _cf._ Zechariah 5:5-11, where the woman “sitting...
GOD REWARDS, NOT TEMPTS James 1:12 The word _temptation_ may stand for trial and testing, without implying that there is any necessary impulse toward evil; or it may stand for the direct impulse of t...
James wrote to Christians in the midst of temptation and trial. He showed first that the issue of testing is that they "may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing." It is therefore to be looked upo...
SIN, AN UNWANTED OFFSPRING OF UNCONTROLLED LUST Lust is natural desire out of control. It is not wrong to be hungry and want to eat, but it is wrong to steal food to satisfy one's hunger. "Let him who...
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth n) sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (n) By sin, in this place, he means actual sin....
When concupiscence hath conceived, (man's free will yielding to it) it bringeth [6] forth sin, our perverse inclinations become sinful, and when any grievous sin is completed, or even consented to, it...
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. (13) Let no man say when he is tempted, I am...
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...
_CONSEQUENCES OF SIN_ ‘Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.’ James 1:15 It would be easy to draw a glaring and harrowing picture. I might take you to our abodes of infamy and wretchednes...
15_Then when lust hath conceived_. He first calls that _lust _which is not any kind of evil affection or desire, but that which is the fountain of all evil affections; by which, as he shews, are conce...
The Epistle of James is not addressed to the assembly, and does not take the ground of apostolic authority over the persons to whom it is sent. It is a practical exhortation which still recognises the...
THEN WHEN LUST HATH CONCEIVED,.... A proposal of pleasure or profit being made, agreeable to lust, or the principle of corrupt nature, sinful man is pleased with it; and instead of resisting and rejec...
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Ver. 15. _When lust hath conceived_] As the plot of all diseases lies in the humours of the b...
_But every man is tempted when_ In the beginning of the temptation; _he is drawn away of his own lust_ Greek, υπο της ιδιας επιθυμιας εξελκομενος; literally, he is _drawn out_ of God, his strong refug...
LUST; the inward desire of the soul after forbidden objects, here considered as the parent of sinful deeds. SIN; in the life. IS FINISHED; in its consequences. DEATH; eternal death, which is, to al...
THEN WHEN LUST HATH CONCEIVED, IT BRINGETH FORTH SIN; AND SIN, WHEN IT IS FINISHED, BRINGETH FORTH DEATH. Having spoken of temptations in the very beginning, v. 2, the apostle now explains the term as...
Temptations from within:...
This chapter has a very close relationship to the Old Testament, for all is seen in connection with God; and Christ is not yet spoken of as the center and essence of all blessing and of all direction...
What is the definition of sin? Study 1 John 3:4; Romans 3:23; James 4:17. What are sins of “omission” and “commission”? How does lust give birth to sin? How does sin “grow up”? Why does sin result in...
'Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.' 'when lust has conceived' -'The will yields to lust and conception takes place' (Robertson...
12-18 It is not every man who suffers, that is blessed; but he who with patience and constancy goes through all difficulties in the way of duty. Afflictions cannot make us miserable, if it be not our...
THEN WHEN LUST HATH CONCEIVED; lust (compared to a harlot) may be said to conceive, when the heart is pleased with the motion, and yields some consent to it. IT BRINGETH FORTH SIN; the birth of sin ma...
James 1:15 Then G1534 desire G1939 conceived G4815 (G5631) birth G5088 (G5719) sin G266 and G1161 sin...
‘Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin, and the sin, when it is fullgrown (‘has come to completeness'), brings forth death.' But sin does not stop there. Once lust has conceived and produced...
THERE IS ONE KIND OF TESTING THAT IS NOT TO BE SEEN AS OF GOD AND THAT IS THE TEMPTATION TO SIN. THAT SPRINGS FROM THE LUSTS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND LEADS TO DEATH (JAMES 1:13). James now moves from th...
James 1:15. THEN. Now follows the genesis of sin. WHEN lust, evil desire, HATH CONCEIVED, IT BRINGETH FORTH SIN. Lust is here considered as a harlot who seduces the will, and sin is the consequence o...
THEN (ειτα). The next step.THE LUST (η επιθυμια). Note article, the lust (verse James 1:14) which one has.WHEN IT HATH CONCEIVED (συλλαβουσα). Second aorist active participle of συλλαμβανω, old...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ According to the teaching of some in the present day, the apostle should...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ The apostle James evidently believed in no lost ten tribes, as some nowad...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ «Where are the lost ten tribes?» asks somebody. They never were lost. Tha...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was an apostle,...
CONTENTS: Testing of faith. Solicitation to evil not of God. Obedience as a test of true faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, James. CONCLUSION: Such as have a true title in Jesus Christ through faith may...
James 1:1. _James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ._ He does not style himself an _apostle,_ because he would not assume any superiority; yet the majesty of his address is the language...
THEN HIS EVIL DESIRE. The false teachers passionately loved adultery, so James uses the symbolism of a birth. Evil desire conceives, grows, and gives birth to sin. See 2 Peter 2:14. WHEN IT IS FULL-GR...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 1:12. IS TRIED.—Better, “hath been approved.” δόκιμος is properly spoken of money as having been tried and refined. CROWN OF LIFE.—See figure in Isaiah 28:5; and...
EXPOSITION JAMES 1:1 SALUTATION. JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. (On the person who thus describes himself, see the Introduction) It is noteworthy that he keeps entirely out of...
Let's turn to James chapter one. James introduces himself as the bondslave of God and of Jesus Christ. It's a title that most of the apostles delighted to take. Renouncing any claim for any rights, tu...
Acts 5:1; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:17; Genesis 3:6; Genesis 4:5;...
The lust. Note the article, omitted in A. V. The peculiar lust of his own. Hath conceived [σ υ λ λ α β ο υ σ α]. Lit., having conceived. Bringeth forth [τ ι κ τ ε ι]. Metaphor of the mother. Rev. be...
Then desire having conceived — By our own will joining therewith. Bringeth forth actual sin — It doth not follow that the desire itself is not sin. He that begets a man is himself a man. And sin being...
If God doesn’t tempt anyone, then why did He tempt Abraham? PROBLEM: The Bible says “God tempted Abraham” (Genesis 22:1, KJV), and Jesus taught His disciples to pray to God, “do not lead us into tempt...