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James 1:25

The perfect law that sets men free. The Good News is the perfect law that sets men free, because: (1) It frees men and women from the slavery of their human nature and gives them back free will; (2) It freed the Jews from the Law of Moses, which was a curse; (3) It sets believers free from the guilt of sin and from the punishment to come; (4) It shows us that everyone is entitled to receive and obey the Good News; (5) Because it forbids prejudice. In what he does. In the things he does in response to the Lord's commands, as he SEES them in the perfect law that sets men free. Faith cannot be divorced from action, as James 2:22 shows. See also Matthew 7:21-23.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 25. _BUT WHOSO LOOKETH INTO THE PERFECT LAW_] The word παρακυψας, which we translate _looketh into_, is very emphatic, and signifies that deep and attentive consideration given to a thing or su...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT WHOSO LOOKETH - (παρακύψας parakupsas). This word means, to stoop down near by anything; to bend forward near, so as to look at anything more closely. See the word explained in the notes at 1 Pet...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. TRIALS AND THE EXERCISE OF FAITH CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Trials and the power of faith (James 1:1)_ 2. The resources of faith (James 1:5) 3. The realization of faith (James 1:9...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Be sure of it (_cf. mg.),_ he goes on, and turns to ask what conduct right views of God should produce. Humility and self-control, firstly, then purity, gentleness, and teachableness, with unsparing h...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    GREETINGS (James 1:1) _ 1:1 James, the slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings to the twelve tribes who are scattered throughout the world._ At the very beginning of his letter Ja...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHOSO. he that. LOOKETH. Literally stooped down (to look). Greek. _parakupto_. App-133. See John 20:5. THE PERFECT, &C. = the perfect law, that of liberty. PERFECT. App-125. CONTINUETH. continued....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _But whoso looketh_ The word involves primarily the idea of stooping down and bending over that on which we look, as with a fixed gaze. See for its literal use Mark 16:5; Luke 24:12, and for its spiri...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    19–27. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, CHARACTER AND WORSHIP This theme incidentally arises from the thought of temptation, as moral or religious error, and is immediately connected with the expression ἀπαρχήν τ...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΠΑΡΑΚΎΨΑΣ. First of stooping or inclining to one side (not stooping _down_), either with a verb of looking, or absolutely as here: παρακύψας βλέπει τὰ ὀθόνια, Luke 24:12; παρακύψας βλέπει κείμενα τὰ ὀ...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF THE_ WORD OF GOD -- JAMES 1:18-25 : The person who loves God will respond to his word. It is God alone who is able to save us. "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth.....

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΠΑΡΑΚΎΨΑΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΎΠΤΩ (G3879) наклоняться и всматриваться с целью увидеть и узнать что-л. конкретное (Mussner). Здесь это значит: "вглядываться в зеркало, чтобы рассмотреть что-л. б...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 2360 THE REWARD OF OBEYING THE GOSPEL James 1:25. _Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT WHOSO LOOKETH, &C.— Ο δε παρακυψας : _He that hath bowed his head,_ or _stooped down,_ more curiously to pry into any thing. The word is used concerning the disciples bowing down curiously and int...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SERMON OUTLINES HOW TO LISTEN TO A SERMON James 1:20-25 Introduction: If a sermon is wasted, the time gone is multiplied by every person who fails to hear. If 100 people fail to hear one half-hour s...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LISTENING IS POINTLESS WITHOUT DOING _Text 1:22-25_ James 1:22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23. For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a d...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER III _RECEIVING FROM GOD_ James 1:16-27 _Introduction_ After fourteen verses of showing the Way of the Wise, James has concluded that our trials are good for us, producing steadfastnessthat...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. LOOKETH INTO, [ parakupsas...

  • Commentary on the Minor Epistles by Caton

    VERSE 25. BUT WHOSO LOOKETH INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY. God's blessed system for man's salvation the gospel of Christ, the word of truth. This perfect law of liberty will show every man just what...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    1 James is never called an apostle and does not write this epistle in that character. Rather, he puts himself in the place of a slave. Hence the epistle is not concerned with authoritative teaching so...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:25 view (f-6) Lit. 'stoops down to look into,' as Luke 24:12 ; John 20:5 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. INTRODUCTION 1 THE WRITER James is the writer of the letter. But he does not tell us...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BUT WHOSO LOOKETH... — Translate, _But he who looked into the perfect law of liberty and continued therein._ The past tense is still kept to enforce the figure of the preceding verse. The earnest stud...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (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 behalf o...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 9 THE DELUSION OF HEARING WITHOUT DOING-THE MIRROR OF GOD'S WORD. James 1:22 HERE we reach what on the whole seems to be the main thought of the Epistle - the all-importance of Christian act...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    James 1:21-25 form a self-contained section. By putting away all impurity the “implanted word” can influence the heart; but it is necessary not only to hear the word but also to act in accordance with...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    παρακύψας : in Sir 14:20 ff. we read, Μακάριος ἀνὴρ ὂς ἐν σοφίᾳ τελευτήσει … ὁ παρακύπτων διὰ τῶν θυρίδων αὐτῆς. The word means literally to “peep into” with the idea of eagerness and concentration, s...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    DOERS, NOT HEARERS ONLY James 1:19 Keep your mouth closed when you are angry; the inner fire will die out of itself, if you keep the doors and windows shut. In James 1:18 we are taught that God's tru...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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 upo...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    DOING WHAT WE HEAR The word is only able to save if we hear and do what we hear (Matthew 7:21-27; Romans 2:13). Woods says the verb tense here in the word "doers" is such that it denotes a continuous...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his (x) deed. (x) Behaviour: for wor...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    The law of Christ, called here _the perfect law of liberty, as it is distinguished from the Jewish law of fear and slavery, is as it were a looking-glass, which may make us know ourselves, and discove...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. (23) For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: (24)...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘A DOER OF THE WORK’_ ‘But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.’ Ja...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE DOER’S REWARD_ ‘This man shall be blessed in his deed.’ James 1:25 It does not define what ‘deed.’ The word is, ‘This man shall be blessed in his doing’; all his doing; whatever he does. It w...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    25_The perfect law of liberty_. After having spoken of empty speculation, he comes now to that penetrating intuition which transforms us to the image of God. And as he had to do with the Jews, he take...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Epistle of James is not addressed to the assembly, and does not take the ground of apostolic authority over the persons to whom it is sent. It is a practical exhortation which still recognises the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT WHOSO LOOKETH INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY,.... By which is meant, not the moral law, but the Gospel; for only of that is the apostle speaking in the context: this is no other than the word of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth _therein_, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. Ver. 25. _Whoso looketh in...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But whoso looketh_ Not with a transient glance, but, as παρακυψας signifies, _bending down_, as it were, with an intention to fix his eyes upon, examine with accuracy, and search all things to the bo...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    LOOKETH INTO; looketh closely into. The apostle means a practical looking, that is, connected with obedience. THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY; the gospel, which gives true freedom to the soul, and is a pe...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BUT WHOSO LOOKETH INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY AND CONTINUETH THEREIN, HE BEING NOT A FORGETFUL HEARER, BUT A DOER OF THE WORK, THIS MAN SHALL BE BLESSED IN HIS DEED....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Doers of the Word:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    What is the perfect law of liberty? How can it be liberty and be law at the same time? What is required for us to “continue” in this law? What is implied about not continuing in the law? Why are we fo...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DEED: Or, doing...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    'But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become. forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does.' 'But' -in...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    22-25 If we heard a sermon every day of the week, and an angel from heaven were the preacher, yet, if we rested in hearing only, it would never bring us to heaven. Mere hearers are self-deceivers; an...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BUT WHOSE LOOKETH INTO; viz. intently and earnestly, searching diligently into the mind of God. The word signifies a bowing down of the head to look into a thing; and is used of the disciples looking...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    James 1:25 But G1161 looks G3879 (G5660) into G1519 perfect G5046 law G3551 liberty G1657 and G2532 continues...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IT IS NOT SUFFICIENT ONLY TO BE A HEARER, IT IS NECESSARY ALSO TO BE A DOER (JAMES 1:22). Having laid a careful foundation in demonstrating that God's People are those whom He has sovereignly begotten...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continues, being not a hearer who forgets but a doer who works, this man will be blessed in his doing.' But then in contrast James de...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    James 1:19-27. In this passage St. James exhorts his readers to be not only hearers but doers of the word. They are to be swift to hear, and to receive the word implanted within them with freedom from...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    James 1:25. Now follows the application of the metaphor. BUT. The doer of the word is now described. WHOSO LOOKETH INTO: literally, ‘stoopeth down to look into,' representing the earnest inspection...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    HE THAT LOOKETH INTO (ο παρακυψας). First aorist active articular participle of παρακυπτω, old verb, to stoop and look into (John 20:5; John 20:11), to gaze carefully by the side of, to peer into or...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    James 1:25 The Perfect Law and its Doers. I. The Perfect Law. Let me remind you how, in every revelation of Divine truth contained in the Gospel, there is a direct moral and practical bearing. No wor...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ According to the teaching of some in the present day, the apostle should...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ The apostle James evidently believed in no lost ten tribes, as some nowad...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    James 1:1. _James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting._ «Where are the lost ten tribes?» asks somebody. They never were lost. Tha...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Testing of faith. Solicitation to evil not of God. Obedience as a test of true faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, James. CONCLUSION: Such as have a true title in Jesus Christ through faith may...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 language...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:25 THE LAW OF LIBERTY. In James, the “law” and the “word” are two ways of describing the same thing. The “law” here refers to the OT as it has been interpreted and fulfilled in C...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:19 Hearing and Doing the Word. This section focuses on living as a Christian directed by “the word of truth,” the gospel (v. James 1:18). Christian living

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 1:23. NATURAL FACE.—Lit. “face of his birth”; “the face he has by corporeal birth.” γενέσεως is used in distinction from the notion which follows of spiritual fe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 entirely out of...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn to James chapter one. James introduces himself as the bondslave of God and of Jesus Christ. It's a title that most of the apostles delighted to take. Renouncing any claim for any rights, tu...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 John 2:24; 1 Peter 2:16; 1 Samuel 12:14;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Whoso looketh [ο π α ρ α κ υ ψ α ς]. Rev., more strictly, he that looketh. See on 1 Peter 1:12. The verb is used of one who stoops sideways [π α ρ α] to look attentively. The mirror is conceived as pl...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    But he that looketh diligently — Not with a transient glance, but bending down, fixing his eyes, and searching all to the bottom. Into the perfect law — Of love as established by faith. St. James here...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, 1. The title given to the word of God, particularly the gospel, it is called LIBERTY,. LAW of liberty, and. PERFECT law of liberty: partly because it calleth us to. state of liberty and...

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