“ Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. ”
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...
(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 t...
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...
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 .
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 las...
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...
Knowing this , that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 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...
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, t...
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. The trying, х to ( G3588 ) dokimion ( G1383 )] - the testing or proving of your faith-namely, by "divers temptations." C...
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...
(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 beh...
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 1:2-4 THIS passage at once raises the q...
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...
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; an...
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...
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...
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. becau...
Testing Produces Patient Endurance Which Finally Results In Being Made Perfect ( James 1:2-4 ). In these words that follow James sums up the essence of the Christian life. He speaks of the joy of...
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...
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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 ; Romans 5:3 ; Romans 5:4 ; Romans...