-
Verse 6. _BUT HE GIVETH MORE GRACE_] μειζονα χαριν, _A
greater_ _benefit_, than all the goods that the world can bestow; for
he gives genuine happiness, and this the world cannot confer. May this
be S...
-
BUT HE GIVETH MORE GRACE - The reference here is undoubtedly to God.
Some have regarded this clause as a continuation of the quotation in
the previous verse, but it is rather to be considered as a dec...
-
IV. FURTHER EXHORTATIONS TO RIGHT LIVING
CHAPTER 4
_ 1. Fightings and worldliness rebuked (James 4:1)_
2. The Godly walk (James 4:7)
James 4:1
A strong rebuke follows the statements concerning the...
-
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...
-
Renegades to your vows, do you not know that love for this world is
enmity to God? Whoever makes it his aim to be the friend of this world
thereby becomes the enemy of God. Do you think that the sayin...
-
MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
-
MORE. greater.
GRACE. App-184. This has reference to the now nature. Compare 1
Corinthians 2:12.
RESISTETH. Greek. _antitassomai._ See Acts 18:6.
PROUD. See Romans 1:30.
UNTO
-
_But he giveth more grace_ Following the explanation already given,
the sequence of thought seems to run thus: God loves us with a feeling
analogous to the strongest form of jealousy, or even envy, bu...
-
CH.
4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE
CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
-
ΜΕΊΖΟΝΑ ΔῈ ΔΊΔΩΣΙΝ ΧΆΡΙΝ. BUT (God) GIVETH
GREATER GRACE. These words are also obscure. Either (_a_) a larger
favour, even than the indwelling Spirit, for He contends against the
proud, who represent...
-
_DO NOT BE GUILTY OF WORLDLINESS-- JAMES 4:6-10:_ James said, "God
resisteth the proud." Pride is the great hindrance to righteousness.
Pride leads the list of the seven things God hates. (Proverbs 6:...
-
ΜΕΊΖΟΝΑ _асс. сотр. от_ ΜΈΓΑΣ (G3187)
большой; _сотр._ больше,
ΔΊΔΩΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325)
давать. Iterat. _praes._, "давать снова и
снова" или гномический, обозначающий
постоянную и...
-
DO YE THINK, &C.— Dr. Benson paraphrases the passage as follows: "Do
you think that the scripture speaketh in vain, or without a very good
reason, when it condemns such a worldly temper?—No, _that_ yo...
-
CHAPTER VIII
_CAUSE AND REMEDY OF STRIFE_
James 4:1-12
_Introduction_
Can it be possible that the church of Jesus Christ could descend to
the sins mentioned here so soon after Pentecost? In less th...
-
DEDICATION TO GOD ALONE IS THE ONLY ANSWER
_Text 4:4-8a_
James 4:4.
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is
enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the wo...
-
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the
proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
BUT - Nay rather.
HE - God. GIVETH MORE GRACE - ever increasing, the further ye depart
fr...
-
VERSE 6 BUT HE GIVETH MORE GRACE.
To reach a proper solution two questions may be propounded. Who is it
that gives? To whom or on whom is the gift bestowed? Both these
questions are pertinent, and wh...
-
5 This passage has puzzled the commentators, and there are many and
various explanations offered to solve what seems to be one of the most
difficult passages in the Scriptures. A simple explanation, w...
-
4:6 says, (k-8) See Proverbs 3:34 ....
-
DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE
1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
-
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO
JAMES
_IAN MACKERVOY_
The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them.
CHAPTER 4
DESIRES AND DIVISIONS 4:1-10
V1 You know where all the fights and quarrels...
-
BUT HE GIVETH MORE GRACE — _i.e._, because of this very presence of
the Holy Ghost within us. He, as the author and conveyer of all good
gifts, in their mystic seven-fold order (Isaiah 11:2) adds to t...
-
CHAPTER 18
ST. JAMES AND PLATO ON LUSTS AS THE CAUSES OF STRIFE; THEIR EFFECT ON
PRAYER.
James 4:1
THE change from the close of the third chapter to the beginning of the
fourth is startling. St. Jam...
-
CHAPTER 19
THE SEDUCTIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE JEALOUSY OF THE DIVINE LOVE.
James 4:4
THE Revisers are certainly right in rejecting, without even mention in
the margin, the reading, "Ye adulterers a...
-
μείζονα δὲ δίδωσιν χάριν : these words further
emphasise the developed doctrine of the Spirit referred to above; they
point to the nature of divine grace, which is almost illimitable.
These verses, 5,...
-
“DRAW NIGH TO GOD”
James 4:1
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 inordinate desire. T...
-
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 and...
-
STRONGLY WANTING WHAT BELONGS TO ANOTHER
The first four verses of James 4:1-17 deal with worldly desire that is
contrary to God's working. Verse 5 continues the thought by referring
to a statement whi...
-
But he giveth greater grace. The Holy Spirit which dwelleth in you,
giveth you graces in proportion to your fidelity in complying with
them, and according to your humility and the love which you bear...
-
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in your members? (2) Ye lust, and have
not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and...
-
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James
from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no
means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
-
In all that follows we have still the judgment of unbridled nature, of
will in its different forms: contentions that arise from the lusts of
the natural heart; request made to God proceeding from the...
-
BUT HE GIVETH MORE GRACE,.... The Arabic version adds, "to us"; the
Ethiopic version, "to you"; and the Syriac version reads the whole
thus; "but our Lord gives more grace to us"; or "greater grace";...
-
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud,
but giveth grace unto the humble.
Ver. 6. _But he giveth_] Or, "it," that is, the Scripture "giveth,"
&c., transforming us into...
-
_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 unhumbled...
-
HE; God; or, according to the second of the above interpretations, the
Holy Spirit.
GIVETH MORE GRACE; to those who humbly seek him, to overcome this evil
propensity.
RESISTETH THE PROUD; repels tho...
-
A humble state of mind demanded of Christians:...
-
BUT HE GIVETH MORE GRACE. WHEREFORE HE SAITH, GOD RESISTETH THE PROUD,
BUT GIVETH GRACE UNTO THE HUMBLE....
-
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 th...
-
How does God give grace? What is grace, as it is used in this verse?
Is this the grace that saves? (Ephesians 2:8-9) Why do we “say
grace” before we eat a meal? Who are the proud? What is the sin of
p...
-
"But He gives. greater grace. Therefore it says, 'God is opposed to
the proud, but gives grace to the humble'"."But he gives. greater
grace" -"Whatever God demands of us, he provides the means by whic...
-
1-10 Since all wars and fightings come from the corruptions of our
own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in the
members. Wordly and fleshly lusts are distempers, which will not allo...
-
BUT HE; either the Spirit of God, if _spirit_ in the former verse be
understood of the Spirit of God; or God, if _spirit_ be there taken
for the spirit of man. GIVETH MORE GRACE; either, though we, ac...
-
1 Clement
all abominable lusts, detestable adultery, and execrable pride. "For
God," saith [the Scripture], "resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to
the humble."[121]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Eph...
-
James 4:6 But G1161 gives G1325 (G5719) more G3187 grace G5485
Therefore G1352 says G3004 (G5719) God...
-
‘But he gives more grace. Which is why the scripture says, “God
resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble”.'
‘He gives more grace.' The One Who jealously yearns over their
spirits, offers them...
-
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).
The condition of some of God's professed people...
-
James 4:6. BUT HE, that is, God, or rather the indwelling Spirit, the
immediate antecedent.
GIVETH MORE, or greater, GRACE. Here also there is a difficulty in
determining what ‘more' refers to: this...
-
James 4:1-12. St. James warns his readers against those evil passions
which gave rise to wars and fightings among them. They must moderate
their desires, and guard against self-gratification. If they...
-
MORE GRACE
(μειζονα χαριν). "Greater grace." Greater than what?
"Greater grace in view of the greater requirement" (Ropes), like
Romans 5:20. God does this.WHEREFORE
(διο). To prove this point Ja...
-
GRACE
Grace (imparted). (1 Peter 2:19); (Romans 6:1); (2 Peter 3:18)....
-
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 hence,...
-
CONTENTS: Rebuke of worldliness and exhortation to humility before
God.
CHARACTERS: God, Satan.
CONCLUSION: Worldly and fleshly lusts are the distemper which will not
allow contentment or satisfacti...
-
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 a...
-
BUT THE GRACE. "God gives us the grace to overcome our human spirit!
And God shows us a better way of making converts to Christ!" GOD
RESISTS THE PROUD. Proverbs 3:34. "God makes the schemes of the pr...
-
_But He giveth more grace_
THE GREATNESS OF THE DIVINE GIFTS A SOURCE OF CHRISTIAN ENCOURAGEMENT
I. HE GIVETH MORE GRACE THAN WE DESERVE. That may seem a self-evident
proposition. It is like saying H...
-
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:6 God’s GRACE will be extended to those who
are HUMBLE before him (see v. James 4:10; also...
-
_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_ gives...
-
EXPOSITION
JAMES 4:1
REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED. A terribly sadden
transition from the "peace" with which James 3:1. closed....
-
This chapter could be entitled how to win friends and influence
people. Guard your tongue, bring your tongue under control, use it for
good, use it to encourage to build up, don't use it to tear down,...
-
1 Peter 5:5; 1 Samuel 2:3; 2 Chronicles 32:26; 2 Chronicles 33:12;...
-
Resisteth. See on 1 Peter 5:5.
Proud. See on Mark 7:22.
Humble. See on Matthew 7:29....
-
The sin of envy being censured before, our apostle next condemns the
sin of pride; he uses. military term when he tells us, the God
RESISTED THE PROUD; it signifies, that he sees himself as in battle...