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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - James 1:1-27

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 upon as a means of blessing and received with joy. He clearly pointed out that God is never the Author of temptation as enticement toward evil, and in a passage full of remarkable force revealed the process of such temptation. It is an appeal through desire to some perfectly legitimate need of life,... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 1:2

‘Count it all joy, my brothers, whenever you find yourself involved with many kinds of temptations,’ James begins by calling on all Christians (‘my brothers’) to rejoice in trials and temptations whenever they are faced up with them, seeing all testing as a means for exercising faith and confidence in the Lord, Jesus Christ, and in His promises, whether those trials be in terms of persecution, problems of life, or inward temptations. They should thus rejoice in them, as they rise above them... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 1:2-4

Christians Are To Rejoice When They Are Tested Because They Know That It will Teach Them How To Endure And Will Result In Their Becoming Spiritually Mature (James 1:2-4 ). We should note that there is no suggestion here that Christians should seek to experience trials and tests. Indeed Jesus taught us to pray, ‘Do not lead me into testing’. What James is rather dealing with is the fact that in the course of life the Christian can expect to be tested in various ways, for it is by such testing... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 1:2-12

Those Who Face Trial for The Sake Of Their Faith in God and the Lord Jesus Christ Will Be Blessed (James 1:2-12 ). The letter commences by outlining the basic themes that will be dealt with later (see Analysis above), for as we have seen the whole letter is in the form of a chiasmus based on those themes. But it is also interesting that the opening verses of the letter after the greeting may also be seen as a chiasmus, coming between the two inclusios of James 1:2; James 1:12. James 1:2;... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - James 1:2-8

James 1:2-Ruth : . 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 the essays of Bacon or successive cantos of Tennyson’ s In Memoriam. It is the manner of “ Wisdom” literature ( cf. especially Ecclus.). The paradox with which the epistle opens is an expansion of the Beatitudes ( Luke 6:20-Isaiah :). The tense of the verb, “ when you have... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 1:2

My brethren; both as being of the same nation and the same religion; so he calls them, that the kindness of his compellation might sweeten his exhortations. Count it; esteem it so by a spiritual judgment, though the flesh judge otherwise. All joy; matter of the chiefest joy, viz. spiritual. So all is taken, 1 Timothy 1:15. When ye fall into; when ye are so beset and circumvented by them, that there is no escaping them, but they come upon you, though by the directeth of God’s providence, yet not... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - James 1:2-4

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESJames 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.—Testing, proving. “The proof to which your faith is put works out endurance.” Patience.—ὑπομονήν; the perseverance which does not falter under suffering. Christian patience is much more than passive submission.James 1:4. Entire.—Lacking no part essential to full and healthy spiritual life. The figure is... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - James 1:2-4

DISCOURSE: 2352THE DUTY OF PATIENCEJames 1:2-4. 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 have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.WE at this time are scarcely able to form a conception of the state of the Church in the apostolic age. Christianity amongst us is attended with none of the evils to which the primitive professors of it were exposed. But to what... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - James 1:2-4

All Joy in All Trials A Sermon (No. 1704) Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, February 4th, 1883, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "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 have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."-- James 1:2-4 James calls the converted among the twelve tribes his brethren. Christianity has a great uniting power:... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - James 1:1-27

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, turning their lives over totally to God and to the lordship of Jesus Christ, they did not consider their lives their own. They were bereft of ambitions in a personal way. They lived solely to serve the Lord and to please Him.A bondslave was just that, one who lived completely for his master. He had... read more

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