“ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;a ”
My brethren - Not brethren as Jews, but as Christians. Compare James 2:1 . Count it all joy - Regard it as a thing to rejoice in; a matter which should afford you happiness. You are not to c...
(1) My brethren, (c) count it all joy (2) when ye fall into divers temptations; (1) The first place or part concerning comfort in afflictions, in which we should not be cast down and be faint hearte...
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 t...
fall . Greek. peripipto. See Acts 27:41 . temptations . trials. Compare Luke 22:28 ; Acts 20:19 . 1Pe 1:6. 1 Peter 4:12 .
2 All joy. The first exhortation is, to bear trials with a cheerful mind. And it was especially necessary at that time to comfort the Jews, almost overwhelmed as they were with troubles. For...
DISCOURSE: 2352 THE DUTY OF PATIENCE James 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 patie...
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Count it all joy - The word πειρασμος, which we translate temptation, signifies affliction, persecution, or trial of any kind; and...
Count it all joy— Under the law, great temporal blessings were promised to the people of God as long as they continued obedient, and terrible afflictions threatened if they were disobedient: but th...
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; My brethren - often in James, marking community of nation and of faith. All joy - cause for the highest joy (Grotius)....
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...
Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. — Better, Account it all joy whenever ye fall into divers temptations — i.e., trials; but even with this more exact rendering of the text,...
Chapter 4 THE PERSONS ADDRESSED IN THE EPISTLE: THE JEWS OF THE DISPERSION. "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting." -...
Steadfast Faith James 1:1-11 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...
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 up...
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 perfec...
My brethren ,.... Not only according to the flesh, he being a Jew as they were; but in a spiritual sense, they being born again of the same grace, belonging to the same family and household of faith...
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Ver. 2. Count it all joy ] The world wondereth (saith Mr Philpot the martyr) how we can be so merry in such extreme misery. But...
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...
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...
Necessity of Faith and Patience; Evil of Indecision. A. D. 61. 2 My brethren, count it all j...
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...
‘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 wh...
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 . Try...
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 apostl...
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 langua...
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 obe...
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 e...
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations,
1 Peter 1:6-8 ; 1 Peter 4:13-16 ; 2 Corinthians 12:10 ; 2 Corinthians 12:9 ; 2 Peter 2:9 ; Acts 5:41 ; Colossians 1:24 ; Hebrews 10:34 ; Hebrews 11:36-38 ; James 1:12 ; Luke 6:22 ; Luke 6...
My brethren, count it all joy — Which is the highest degree of patience, and contains all the rest. When ye fall into divers temptations — That is, trials.