Grudge. Groan, or Murmur. See Hebrews 13:17.
one against another. against (App-104.) one another.
lest. in order that (Greek. hina) not (Greek. me).
condemned. The texts read "judged". App-122.
before. App-104.
Verse 9. _GRUDGE NOT_] μη στεναζετε. _Groan not_; grumble not; do not murmur through impatience; and let not any ill treatment which you receive, induce you to vent your feelings in imprecations again...
GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER - Margin, “groan, grieve.” The Greek word (στενάζω stenazō) means, “to sigh, to groan,” as of persons in distress, Romans 8:23; and then to sigh or groan through impat...
V. THE COMING OF THE LORD AND THE LIFE OF FAITH CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The oppression by the rich and their coming doom (James 5:1)_ 2. Be patient unto the coming of the Lord (James 5:7) 3. The prayers of...
Patience in James 5:7; James 5:10 is different from endurance in n, Hebrews 12:1 f.; it is the opposite of short-temperedness or impatience. The farmer does his work and then can only wait for a harve...
THE WORTHLESSNESS OF RICHES (James 5:1-3)...
Brothers. have patience until the coming of the Lord. Look you, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, patiently waiting for it until it receives the early and the late rains. So do you...
_Grudge not one against another_ Better, perhaps, COMPLAIN NOT. The primary meaning of the verb is "to groan." To indulge in such complaints was to assume the office of the Judge, whose presence they...
Comfort and Counsel for the Poor 7. _Be patient therefore_ More literally, BE LONG-SUFFERING. The logical sequence implied in "therefore" is that the "brethren" whom St James addresses should follow t...
ΚΡΙΘΗ͂ΤΕ with all the chief MSS. κατακριθῆτε has very slight support. 9. ΜἩ ΣΤΕΝΆΖΕΤΕ, a strengthened expression for μὴ καταλαλεῖτε, ch. James 4:11. Comp. Matthew 7:1 μὴ κρίνετε ἵνα μὴ κριθῆτε: and s...
_RETAIN THE RIGHT ATTITUDE -- JAMES 5:1-11_ Wealth is not wrong within itself. The trouble with riches is in reference to wealth held without regard for the kingdom of God. The worldly rich that are d...
ΣΤΕΝΆΖΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΣΤΕΝΆΖΩ (G4727) стонать. _Praes. imper._ с отр. ΜΉ (G3361) призывает к прекращению развивающегося действия или запрещает привычное действие, ΚΡΙΘΉΤΕ _aor. conj. act...
DISCOURSE: 2375 NEARNESS OF JUDGMENT James 5:9. _Behold! the Judge standeth before the door_. OF the Day of Judgment there is frequent mention in the New Testament: and so strongly was the idea of it...
HOLD YOURSELF IN CHECK _Text 5:7-9_ James 5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it,...
CHAPTER X _RESIST FIERCELY, BRETHREN!_ James 5:7-12 _Introduction_ After the very vivid account of the vengeance that belongs to God, and the just judgment that will come to their persecutor, James...
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. GRUDGE NOT, [ stenazete (G4727)] - 'Murmur not;' literally, 'groan:' a half-suppressed co...
VERSE 9 GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER. That is, be not querulous, grudgingly complaining of one another. This is wrong, and will be condemned as wrong by the Lord, who is to be the judge. And remembe...
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...
5:9 Complain (g-1) Lit. 'groan,' as Mark 7:34 ....
Do not let your irritation and soreness at outside oppression vent itself in impatience and grumbling towards one another....
REBUKE AND ENCOURAGEMENT 2. Are corrupted, etc.] prophetic tense, in which the future is spoken of as though it were already come to pass....
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 5 JUDGEMENT OF THE RICH 5:1-6 V1 Now, you rich people, weep and cry aloud. Th...
GRUDGE NOT. — Say in preference, _Murmur not._ “Grudge” has curiously changed its meaning from an outward murmur to an inward feeling. It has unfortunately been retained both here and in 1 Peter 4:9....
CHAPTER 24 PATIENCE IN WAITING-THE ENDURANCE OF JOB-THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MENTION OF JOB BY ST. JAMES. James 5:7 "BE patient, therefore, brethren." The storm of indignation is past, and from this...
μὴ στενάζετε : “A strengthened expression for μὴ καταλαλεῖτε James 4:11 ” (Carr); it refers to the inward feeling of grudge against another. The word shows that it is not only the righteous who are ad...
The section 7 11 is a Christian adaptation of the earlier Jewish conception of the Messianic Era; in place of αἱ ἐσχάται ἡμέραι there is ἡ παρουσία τοῦ Κυρίου, the one a specifically Jewish, the other...
PATIENTLY AWAIT THE LORD'S COMING James 5:1 There are many among the rich who are using money as a sacred trust. Not against these does the Apostle utter his terrible anathemas, but against those who...
Approaching the conclusion of his letter, the writer addressed a terrible indictment and solemn warning to the rich. He showed the failure of possessions, and how they may become the curse of life. S...
CHRISTIANS NEED TO BE PATIENT James urges the brethren to patiently endure just as the Lord did (James 5:7; Matthew 5:38-48). At the coming of the Lord, James urged his readers to remember, all will b...
(4) (d) Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: (5) behold, the judge standeth before the door. (4) He commends Christian patience, for that which others through impatience us...
Be patient, &c. He now in these five following verses turns his discourse from the rich to the poor, exhorting them to patience till the coming of the Lord to judgment, which draweth near; his coming...
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter ra...
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_Grudge not, _or, _groan not. _As the complaints of many were heard, that they were more severely treated than others, this passage is so explained by some, as though James bade each to be contented...
The two classes in Israel are distinctly marked here in contrast with one another, with the addition of the walk which the Christian ought to pursue when chastised by the Lord. The apostle gives the c...
GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER, BRETHREN,.... On account of any happiness, temporal or spiritual, which another enjoys; do not inwardly repine at it; or secretly sigh and groan in an envious manner at...
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. Ver. 9. _Grudge not, &c._] μη στεναζετε, groan not, grumble not, grow not sour and sullen o...
_Be patient therefore, brethren_ He now addresses the pious, oppressed, and persecuted disciples of Christ: as if he had said, Since the Lord will soon come to punish them, and relieve you, patiently...
GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER; the apostle here rebukes that murmuring and complaining spirit between brethren which has its root in worldly lust and envy. THE JUDGE; who will punish all sin, and re...
Admonition to patience:...
GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER, BRETHREN, LEST YE BE CONDEMNED; BEHOLD, THE JUDGE STANDETH BEFORE THE DOOR....
Verses 1 Timothy 6 are addressed to rich men, and no doubt specially to those who make some claim of having the knowledge of God. They are bidden to weep and howl for the miseries that will take them,...
Why do we grumble? Why is our grumbling against one another? Why would we be condemned if we complain? List some things the Israelites complained about in the wilderness. Study 1 Corinthians 10:1-11....
GRUDGE NOT: Or, groan, or grieve not...
"Do not complain, brethren, against one another, that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door"."Do not complain" -"Present active imperative, "stop groaning a...
7-11 Consider him that waits for a crop of corn; and will not you wait for a crown of glory? If you should be called to wait longer than the husbandman, is not there something more worth waiting for?...
GRUDGE NOT; Greek: Groan not; the sense may be, either: Envy not one another, (or, as we translate it: _Grudge not_), it being the nature of envy to groan at other men's good; or, Groan not by way of...
James 5:9 not G3361 grumble G4727 (G5720) another G2596 G240 brethren G80 lest G3363 condemned G2632 ...
A CALL TO PATIENT ENDURANCE IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD'S COMING (JAMES 5:7). James now turns back to those who are true ‘brothers' and exhorts them to patient endurance, and to watch their tongues, in t...
‘Do not murmur, brothers, one against another, that you be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors.' But it is one thing to patiently endure external trials, it is quite another to endur...
James 5:7-20. St. James concludes his Epistle with a variety of admonitions. He first exhorts his readers to patience; they are to exercise forbearance toward their oppressors and trust toward God, be...
James 5:9. GRUDGE NOT. The Greek verb means to sigh or groan; it is here rendered ‘grudge,' because that word in Old English signified to murmur or repine. Hence ‘murmur not;' be not impatient. This r...
MURMUR NOT (μη στεναζετε). Prohibition with μη and the present active imperative of στεναζω, old verb, to groan. "Stop groaning against one another," as some were already doing in view of their tro...
CONTENTS: Warning to the rich. Exhortations in view of Christ's second coming. CHARACTERS: Christ, Job, Elias, James. CONCLUSION: Great amassing of wealth will be a sign of the last days, but woe to...
James 5:1. _Go to now,_ or go now, _ye rich men._ He had taught them humility, because their glory vanished away as the flower of the field: chap. James 1:10. He now calls upon them _to weep and howl_...
DO NOT COMPLAIN. This begins a new thought. "I told you about the quick destruction of those who persecute you to give you hope, but do not let this make you resentful against them." SO THAT GOD. See...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 5:7. Margin, “suffer with long patience.” St. James inculcates a systematic course of action. EARLY AND LATTER RAIN.—_Early_ rain fell from October to February,...
EXPOSITION JAMES 5:1 DENUNCIATION OF THE RICH FOR (1) GRINDING DOWN THE POOR AND KEEPING BACK THEIR WAGES;...
Now in chapter five he takes on the rich. So this doesn't apply to many of us. Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, your garment...
1 Corinthians 10:11; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Peter 4:9; 2 Corinthians 9:7;...
Grudge not [μ η σ τ ε ν α ζ ε τ ε]. Better, as Rev., murmur not. The verb means to sigh or groan. Standeth before the doors. In the act of entering....
Murmur not one against another — Have patience also with each other. The judge standeth before the door — Hearing every word, marking every thought....
Observe here, 1. prohibiton, GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER; that is, do not murmur or repine, groan or grieve, as impatient men use to do under their pressure; complain not of God, because the time o...