Verse 10. _HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD_] In James 4:7 they were exhorted to _submit_ to God; here they are exhorted to _humble themselves in his sight_. Submission to God's authority w...
HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD - Compare Matthew 23:12. See the notes at James 4:6. That is, be willing to take your appropriate place in the dust on account of your transgressions. This 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...
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...
MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
HUMBLE YOURSELVES. Greek. _tapeinoo._ See 2 Corinthians 11:7. LORD. App-98. A (B according to texts). LIFT... UP. Greek. _hupsoo._ See John 12:32....
_Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up_ Better, HE SHALL EXALT, so as to preserve the manifest allusion to our Lord's words as recorded in Matthew 23:12; Luke 14:12; Luk...
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,...
ΤΑΠΕΙΝΏΘΗΤΕ, passive form with middle sense. See Monro, _Hom. Grammar_, § 44, where it is shewn that aorists in -ην and -θην had originally an intransitive sense of which the passive sense was a growt...
CH. 4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
_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:...
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...
HUMBLE YOURSELVES, &C.— "In this manner lay yourselves at the foot of God with the lowest prostration and self-abasement, as offenders against his sacred Majesty, and with an affecting conviction that...
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...
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD - as continually in the presence of Him who alone is to be exalted: the truest incentive to humility....
VERSE 10 HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD. Humble yourselves in God's presence, and he shall lift you up. He will exalt you by bestowing the blessings of his gracious pardon and salvation u...
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...
4:10 yourselves (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....
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...
HUMBLE YOURSELVES... — Read, _Humble yourselves therefore before the Lord, and He shall lift you up. “_For thus saith the high and lofty One” (Isaiah 57:15), “I dwell in the high and holy place, with...
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...
“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...
(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...
10_Humble yourselves, _or, _be ye humbled_. The conclusion of what is gone before is, that the grace of God then be ready to raise us up when he sees that our proud spirits are laid aside. We emulate...
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...
HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,.... Which is done, when men, before the Lord, and from their hearts, and in the sincerity of their souls, acknowledge their meanness and unworthiness, their...
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Ver. 10. _Humble yourselves_] He beats often upon this most needful but much neglected duty of humiliation, and all is little eno...
_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...
HUMBLE YOURSELVES; instead of fighting and warring for worldly emoluments, honor, and pleasure, commit yourselves quietly to God, and he shall lift you up to true honor in his own time and way....
HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND HE SHALL LIFT YOU UP. All sins may be said to have their root and origin in the pride of the human heart, which refuses to bow to the will of the Lord....
A humble state of mind demanded of Christians:...
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...
What is necessary for us to humble ourselves? How does God lift us up? How do we humble ourselves before God? How do we humble ourselves before men? How can one be more humble? If I wanted to be a mor...
"Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you."Humble yourselves" -Once again, we must cooperate with the will of God. We make the final decision whether or not we will be humb...
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...
HUMBLE YOURSELVES: the same duty pressed again, only with respect to the more internal part of it, the debasement of the heart, lest they should rest too much in the outward exercises before mentioned...
James 4:10 yourselves G5013 (G5682) sight G1799 Lord G2962 and G2532 lift G5312 you G5209 up G5312 ...
‘Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.' And the result of their humbling themselves before God is that ‘the Lord will exalt you.' He will lift them up to share His glory ...
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 4:1-12. 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...
James 4:10. HUMBLE YOURSELVES. All the above exhortations are enforcements of humility. IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD: that is, before the Lord, as in His presence. The Lord is, as is usual in the Epistl...
HUMBLE YOURSELVES (ταπεινωθητε). First aorist passive imperative of ταπεινοω, old verb from ταπεινος (James 1:9), as in Matthew 18:4. The passive here has almost the middle or reflexive sense. The m...
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...
HUMBLE YOURSELVES. See Matthew 23:12 and note....
_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 4:10 See note on v. 6. ⇐ ⇔...
_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,...
1 Peter 5:6; 1 Samuel 2:9; James 4:6; James 4:7; Job 22:29;...