“ But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. ”
But now ye rejoice in your boastings - That is, probably, in your boastings of what you can do; your reliance on your own skill and sagacity. You form your plans for the future as if with consumm...
This and the next paragraph denounce the vices of the rich, in the spirit of Amos and Isaiah; that they are Jews, and not Christians, seems obvious, if this epistle is to be got into the first centur...
rejoice . boast. Greek. kauchaomai. See Romans 2:17 ; Romans 5:2 . boastings . Greek. alazoneia. Only here and 1 John 2:16 . Compare Romans 1:30 . rejoicing . boasting. Greek. kauchesis...
16 But now ye rejoice, or, glory. We may learn from these words that James condemned something more than a passing speech. Ye rejoice, or, glory, he says, in your empty boastings. Though...
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. But now ye rejoice in your boastings - Ye glory in your proud and self-sufficient conduct, exulting that ye are free from the trammel...
But now ye rejoice, &c.— But you, on the contrary, glory in your boasting projects,— (respecting the gain they were to make by their traffic, James 4:13 .)— you take pleasure in this confiden...
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Now - as it is. Rejoice in your boastings - ye boast in your arrogant presumptions that the future is certain to you ( Jam...
Denunciation of Greed and Love of Pleasure 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'
But now.... — How different is the case with you, cries St. James; you actually glory and delight in your own self-confidence and presumption, and every such rejoicing is evil. The word for “boasti...
Chapter 22 SELF-ASSURANCE AND INVASION OF DIVINE PREROGATIVES INVOLVED IN PRESUMING UPON OUR FUTURE-THE DOCTRINE OF PROBABILISM. James 4:13-17 WORLDLINESS and want of humility are the two kind...
“If the Lord Will” James 4:11-17 When we speak evil of another, we usurp the functions of the only lawgiver and judge. If that other is endeavoring to model his life by the law, to speak evil o...
The writer now dealt with the effect of faith on character. Everything depends on desire. To attempt to satisfy a natural desire without reference to God is futile, and issues in internal conflict an...
(13) Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: (14) Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what i...
But now ye rejoice in your boastings ,.... Of tomorrow, and of the continuance of life, and of going to such a place, and abiding there for such a time, and of trading and trafficking with great suc...
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Ver. 16. In your boastings ] Of long life and suitable success. God will shoot an arrow at such suddenly, Psalms 64:9 , as he di...
Now ye rejoice Καυχασθε, ye glory, in your boastings Ye please yourselves in the vain thoughts which you entertain of these worldly projects and successes, and you boast of them. All such rejoic...
This chapter, to the end of v.6, continues the subject begun in Ch.3:13. Sensual. devilish wisdom was accompanied by wars and fightings: but this proceeded from the lusts of the flesh active within t...
Caution against Slander; Caution against Presumption. A. D. 61. 11 Speak not evil one of ano...
But now ye rejoice, or, glory; ye please yourselves with them. In your boastings; viz. of your carnal projects, and hopes of what you intend to do, and expect to get: q.d. You vainly boast of you...
Christians Need To Face Up To The Frailty Of Their Lives ( James 4:12-17 ). The contrast between man in his inability to act as judge in contrast with the great Judge Himself, now leads up to the...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 4:13 . Such a city. —“This city”; the one the speaker is supposed to have in mind. James 4:14 . What shall be. —“What your life shall be on the morrow.” V...
James 4:1 . From whence come wars and fightings among you? Whether between nations, or parties or individuals,-if there be wars and fightings, whence do they come? James 4:1 . Come they not h...
James 4:1 . From whence come wars and fightings among you? St. James saw in the Spirit the bloody and cruel wars which would rise among christian powers, much the same as among the heathen. He had...
EXPOSITION James 4:1-59 REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED . A terribly sadden transition from the "peace" with which James 3:1-59 . closed. James 4:1...
Trust in God's providence essential:
1 Corinthians 4:7 ; 1 Corinthians 4:8 ; 1 Corinthians 5:6 ; Isaiah 47:10 ; Isaiah 47:7 ; Isaiah 47:8 ; James 3:14 ; Proverbs 25:14 ; Proverbs 27:1 ; Psalms 52:1 ; Psalms 52:7 ; Revelation...