James 1:3
What meaning of the james 1:3 in the Bible?
What does James 1:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience."
What does James 1:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience."
JAMES 1:3 doki,mion {A} In the context doki,mion in its usual meaning (“a means or instrument of testing”) gives somewhat less than satisfactory sense; what is needed is an adjective (used as a subs...
Verse James 1:3. _THE TRYING OF YOUR FAITH_] Trials put religion, and all the graces of which it is composed to _proof_; the man that _stands_ in such trials gives proof that his religion is sound, an...
KNOWING THIS, THAT THE TRYING OF YOUR FAITH WORKETH PATIENCE - Patience is one of the fruits of such a trial, and the grace of patience is worth the trial which it may cost to procure it. This is one...
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 paragraph, like its successors, has no special link with its context: it is the writer's habit to throw out a series of aphoristic comments on topics, with as much connexion as there is between th...
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...
KNOWING. App-132. TRYING. testing. Gr _dokimion._ Only here and 1 Peter 1:7. FAITH. App-150. Read, "your tested faith". PATIENCE. Compare Romans 5:3....
Trials and their Purpose 1. _a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ_ The description which the writer gives of himself throws no light on his identity. The term "servant," better SLAVE, as one...
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...
_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...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part._ (причины) ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать. _Praes._ описывает одновременное действие. Содержание знания передается последующим ΌΤ (G3754) в _прид._ ΔΟΚΊΜΙΟΝ (G1383) испытание, пр...
DISCOURSE: 2352 THE DUTY OF PATIENCE James 1:2. _My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience hav...
THE TRYING OF YOUR FAITH WORKETH PATIENCE— _Produceth patience._ Heylin. The word Δοκιμιον signifies _proof_ or _evidence,_ in most other authors: but still, as it denotes a proof given by trial, the...
CHAPTER II _THE WAGES OF THE WISE_ James 1:2-15 TRIALS PRODUCE STEADFASTNESS _Text 1:2-4_ 2. Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations: 3. Knowing that the proving...
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. THE TRYING, [ to (G3588) dokimion (G1383)] - the testing or proving of your faith-namely, by "divers temptations." Compare Romans 5:3,...
VERSE 3. TRYING OF YOUR FAITH WORKETH PATIENCE. It may be an unpleasant thought to contemplate all that is comprehended in the expression "trying of your faith." The idea is that your faith may be put...
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...
1:3 works (g-8) Works out as an effect. see ver. 20; Philippians 2:12 ....
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...
(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 5 THE RELATION OF THIS EPISTLE TO THE WRITINGS OF ST. PAUL AND OF ST. PETER - THE DATE OF THE EPISTLE - THE DOCTRINE OF JOY IN TEMPTATION. James 1:2 THIS passage at once raises the question...
γινώσκοντες : “recognising”; this seems to be the force of the word γιγνώσκω in Hellenistic Greek (see Lightfoot, _Ep. to the Galatians_, p. 171); if so, it comes very appositely after ἡγήσασθε. τὸ δο...
STEADFAST FAITH James 1:1 This Epistle is marked by the austere features of the Jerusalem church, which refused to be affected by that wider contact with the Gentile world, by which the life and tea...
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...
REASONS FOR HAVING JOY IN TRIALS James uses the word for "greetings" which means "joy to you." He then goes on to tell his readers they ought to be happy even in the presence of many and various kind...
(3) Knowing [this], that the (d) trying of your faith worketh patience. (3) The second, because patience, a surpassing and most excellent virtue, is brought about in us by this means. (d) That by th...
_The trying of your faith worketh patience. St. Paul seems to assert the reverse: (Romans v. 3.) when he says, patience worketh a trial. They are easily reconciled. Here St. James teacheth us, that pa...
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; (3) Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. (4) But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect...
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...
3_Knowing this, that the trying_. We now see why he called adversities _trials _or _temptations_, even because they serve to try our faith. And there is here a reason given to confirm the last sentenc...
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...
KNOWING THIS,.... By experience; as everyone that is trained up in the school of affliction does: the apostle appeals to the saints, to whom he writes, for the truth of what he was about to say; and w...
Knowing _this_, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Ver. 3. _The trial of your faith_] Yea, such a well knit patience, as maketh a man suffer after he hath suffered, as David did from Shi...
_Count it all joy_ That is, matter of the greatest joy; _when ye fall into divers temptations_ Πειρασμοις, _trials;_ for though rendered _temptations_, it does not signify here what is commonly meant...
THE TRYING OF YOUR FAITH; that is, when the trial is rightly endured. PATIENCE; in its usual scriptural sense of steadfast endurance....
Temptation and prayer:...
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...
How is our faith tested? What is a definition of patience? How does faith produce patience?...
'knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.' 'knowing that' -'recognize that, accept the fact that' (Roberts p. 42) The above "joy" is based on knowledge of certain truths. During tri...
1-11 Christianity teaches men to be joyful under troubles: such exercises are sent from God's love; and trials in the way of duty will brighten our graces now, and our crown at last. Let us take care...
OLBGrk; KNOWING THIS; considering. THAT THE TRYING OF YOUR FAITH; the reason why he called afflictions temptations, as well as why believers should count it all joy to fall into them, viz. because the...
James 1:3 knowing G1097 (G5723) that G3754 testing G1383 your G5216 faith G4102 produces G2716 (G5736) patience G5281 that - Romans 5:3-4, Romans 8:28; 2 Corinthians 4:17 patience - Romans 2:7,...
TESTING PRODUCES PATIENT ENDURANCE WHICH FINALLY RESULTS IN BEING MADE PERFECT (JAMES 1:2). In these words that follow James sums up the essence of the Christian life. He speaks of the joy of a vibra...
James 1:3. KNOWING THIS being well assured of the fact, the reason or ground of the joy. THAT THE TRYING. These temptations are regarded as the tests or proofs of faith, and in this consists their v...
KNOWING (γινωσκοντες). Present active participle of γινωσκω (experimental knowledge, the only way of getting this view of "trials" as "all joy").THE PROOF (το δοκιμιον). Now known (Deissmann, _Bib...
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 ma...
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...
BECAUSE. God's purpose in this is to train you to endure!...
_Count it all Joy when ye fall Into divers temptations_ THE CHRISTIAN’S DUTY IN TIMES OF TRIAL This positive injunction of the Christian ethics may seem too difficult, if not impossible to be obeyed...
JAMES 1:2 The Testing of Faith. Trials are part of God’s “good gifts” (v. James 1:17) to his people, to strengthen them in their faith. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (v...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 1:2. TEMPTATIONS.—As so often in the New Testament, trials which take the form of suffering, and serve the purposes of Divine discipline. James 1:3. TRYING.—Tes...
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...
2 Corinthians 4:17; 2 Peter 1:6; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; 2 Thessalonians 3:5; Colossians 1:11; Hebrews 10:36; Hebrews 12:1; Romans 15:4; Romans 2:7;...
Trying [δ ο κ ι μ ι ο ν]. Rev., proof; but the American Revisers insist on proving, and rightly. See on 1 Peter 1:7. Worketh [κ α τ ε ρ γ α ζ ε τ α ι]. The compound verb with kata, down through, indi...