James 4:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. ”

James 4:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep - That is, evidently, on account of your sins. The sins to which the apostle refers are those which he had specified in the previous part of the chapter, and whi...
James 4:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(6) Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to (a) heaviness. (6) He goes on in the same comparison of opposites, and contrasts those profane joys...
James 4:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The climax of the last paragraph leads to a diagnosis of the disease that poisoned quarrelsome Jewish communities. Faction fights were the logical outcome of unbridled passions; they campaign against...
James 4:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Be afflicted . Greek. talaiporeo. Only here. Compare James 5:1 . Romans 7:24 . laughter . Greek. gelos. Only here. be turned . See Acts 2:20 . heaviness . Greek. katepheia. Only here....
James 4:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9 Be afflicted and mourn. Christ denounces mourning on those who laugh, as a curse, ( Luke 6:25 ;) and James, in what shortly follows, alluding to the same words, threatens the rich with mour...
James 4:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2371 REPENTANCE URGED [Note: For Ash-Wednesday.] James 4:8-10 . Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minde...
James 4:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Be afflicted, and mourn - Without true and deep repentance ye cannot expect the mercy of God....
James 4:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Be afflicted, and mourn,— We may and ought to rejoice in the Lord, that is, in the consciousness of his favour, and in the prospect of the happiness which is promised in the gospel; but in pride an...
James 4:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Be afflicted ... х talaipooreesate ( G5003 )] - endure misery; i:e., mourn over your...
James 4:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Denunciation of Greed and Love of Pleasure 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'
James 4:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep . — For wretchedness, sorrow, and tears are the three steps of the homeward way to peace and God. And in proof of real conversion there must be the outward lamentat...
James 4:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 18 ST. JAMES AND PLATO ON LUSTS AS THE CAUSES OF STRIFE; THEIR EFFECT ON PRAYER. James 4:1-13 THE change from the close of the third chapter to the beginning of the fourth is startling...
James 4:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Draw Nigh to God” James 4:1-10 The Apostle returns to “the jealousy and faction” of the previous chapter, James 3:14 , and says that these evils are traceable to lust , that is, to inordinat...
James 4:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
James 4:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(7) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye dou...
James 4:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep ,.... Not in a bare external way; not by afflicting the body with fastings and scourgings, by renting of garments, and clothing with sackcloth, and putting ashes on...
James 4:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Ver. 9. Be afflicted ] ταλαιπωρησατε. or, Be miserable; ye are so, but see yourselves to b...
James 4:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But he God, giveth more grace To all those who, while they shun those tempers, sincerely and earnestly pray for it. Wherefore he saith , [see the margins] God, resisteth the proud The unhumble...
James 4:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
James 4:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. A. D. 61. 1 From whence come...
James 4:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Be afflicted; humble yourselves for your sins, before mentioned, and in the sense of wrath approaching, if ye do not. And mourn, with inward sorrow of heart. And weep; show your inward grief by...
James 4:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

As A Consequence They Are To Subject Themselves to God, Resist the Devil, And Draw Near to God By Purifying Themselves And Truly Repenting ( James 4:6-10 ). The condition of some of God's professe...
James 4:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES James 4:5 .—The precise rendering is doubtful. There is no passage either in the Canonical or Apocryphal Scriptures that is here referred to. The Revised Version g...
James 4:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 4:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
James 4:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Submit yourselves therefore to God Submitting ourselves to God I. THE DUTY OF SUBMITTING OURSELVES TO GOD. This submission has its commencement and abiding root in the reception of Christ as a...
James 4:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
James 4:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A humble state of mind demanded of Christians:
James 4:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 7:10 ; 2 Corinthians 7:11 ; Ecclesiastes 2:2 ; Ecclesiastes 7:2-5 ; Ecclesiastes 7:6 ; Ezekiel 16:63 ; Ezekiel 7:16 ; Isaiah 22:12 ; Isaiah 22:13 ; James 5:1 ; James 5:2 ; J...
James 4:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Be afflicted — For your past unfaithfulness to God.

James 4:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

James 4:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

James 4:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

James 4:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

James 4:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

James 4:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

James 4:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

James 4:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

James 4:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

James 4:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

James 4:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

James 4:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James 4:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

James 4:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

James 4:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 4:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

James 4:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

James 4:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

James 4:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

James 4:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

James 4:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

James 4:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

James 4:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

James 4:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

James 4:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 4:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes