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 it.
Verse 21. _ALL FILTHINESS_] πασαν ροπαριαν. This word signifies any impurity that cleaves to the body; but applied to the mind, it implies all impure and unholy affections, such as those spoken of Jam...
WHEREFORE - In view of the fact that God has begotten us for his own service; in view of the fact that excited feeling tends only to wrong, let us lay aside all that is evil, and submit ourselves whol...
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...
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...
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...
FILTHINESS. Greek. _rhuparia._ Only here. Compare James 2:2; 1 Peter 3:21. SUPERFLUITY. abundance. Greek. _perisseia_. See Romans 5:17. NAUGHTINESS. App-128. "Naughty" and "naughtiness" had. much mor...
_lay apart all filthiness_ The cognate adjective is found in its literal sense in ch. James 2:2, and figuratively in Revelation 22:11. A kindred noun appears in a like combination in "the putting away...
ἈΠΟΘΈΜΕΝΟΙ, of putting off a garment, τὰ ἱμάτια, Acts 7:58; a burden, ὅγκον, Hebrews 12:1. More frequently figuratively, Romans 13:12 τὰ ἔργα τοῦ σκότους....
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...
_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.....
ΔΙΌ (G1352) следовательно, ΆΠΟΘΈΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΆΠΟΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G659) снимать, срывать. Это метафора снятия одежды (Mayor), ΡΥΠΑΡΊΑ (G4507) грязь, нечистота. Это относится как к грязной...
SUPERFLUITY OF NAUGHTINESS— _Vicious superfluity;_ every vice, and especiallyworldly cares or desires: these, if allowed in the mind, will, as weeds, choke up the _good seed;_ which is the same as the...
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...
TO LISTEN IS BETTER THAN TO SPEAK _Text 1:19-21_ 19. Ye know this, my beloved brethren, But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20. for the wrath of man worketh not the...
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...
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. LAY APART - once for all [ apothemenoi (G659): aor...
VERSE 21. WHEREFORE LAY APART. Simply lay aside. Entirely discard and put away from you. ALL FILTHINESS. That is, all impurity which may arise from the lusts of the flesh, and all abounding or over...
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...
SUPERFLUITY OF NAUGHTINESS] better, 'overflowing of malice.' The much-speaking of the Jews often ended in evil-speaking. ENGRAFTED] RV 'implanted.' The Word is like a seed lying in the heart, which,...
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...
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...
(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...
WHEREFORE LAY APART ALL FILTHINESS AND SUPERFLUITY OF NAUGHTINESS. — So Peter (1 Peter 3:21) speaks of “the filth of the flesh.” But the defilement here referred to seems general and not special, comm...
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...
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...
PREPARING HEARTS TO RECEIVE GOD'S WORD Instead of allowing anger to boil over uncontrolled from our hearts, we must prepare our hearts to receive God's word. We must put aside the clothing stained wi...
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with (t) meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. (t) By meekness he means modesty, and anything t...
_All uncleanness. [8] The Greek shews that hereby is meant a sordid, filthy uncleanness, infecting and defiling the soul. --- The engrafted [9] word. The word and doctrine of Christ, by the labours of...
Do not err, my beloved brethren. (17) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (18) Of...
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...
_UNION WITH CHRIST_ ‘The engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls.’ James 1:21 How is the engrafted Word able to save the soul? I. HOW DOES THE GRAFT SAVE THE TREE? (_a_) _ By changing i...
_SPIRITUAL GRAFTING_ ‘The engrafted Word.’ James 1:21 The figure is that of grafting a good shoot upon an inferior stock. Without pushing the figure too far, we may learn from it something concerni...
21_Wherefore lay apart_. He concludes by saying how the word of life is to be received. And first, indeed, he intimates that it cannot be rightly received except it be implanted, or strike roots in us...
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...
WHEREFORE LAY APART ALL FILTHINESS,.... All manner of filthiness, both of flesh and spirit; all pride, vanity, wrath, malice, and evil speaking, under hearing the word: the allusion seems to be to a b...
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. Ver. 21. _All filthiness_] Gr. ρυπαριαν, the stinkin...
_Wherefore_ Because wrath is such a hinderance to true religion, and you are regenerated; _lay apart_ As you would a dirty garment; _all filthiness_ Every kind of sin which is of a defiling nature. Th...
ALL FILTHINESS; of flesh and spirit, 2 Corinthians 7:1. SUPERFLUITY OF NAUGHTINESS; malice in the heart flowing out in the life. THE ENGRAFTED WORD; the word of divine truth engrafted-or, as some ren...
GOD'S FATHERHOOD AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF SONSHIP. God's fatherhood and the acceptance of His Word:...
WHEREFORE, LAY A PART ALL FILTHINESS AND SUPERFLUITY OF NAUGHTINESS, AND RECEIVE WITH MEEKNESS THE ENGRAFTED WORD, WHICH IS ABLE TO SAVE YOUR SOULS. The first sentence serves as a transition between t...
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...
What is meant by filthiness? Define: wickedness. What is meekness? Is meekness a sign of weakness? What is the implanted word? How is the word implanted? How does the word save our souls? What else “s...
'Therefore putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.' 'Therefore' -In light of the trials and pressures...
19-21 Instead of blaming God under our trials, let us open our ears and hearts to learn what he teaches by them. And if men would govern their tongues, they must govern their passions. The worst thin...
WHEREFORE LAY APART; not only restrain it, and keep it in; but put off, and throw it away as a filthy rag, ISAIAH 30:22: see Ephesians 4:22 Colossians 3:8...
Second Apology of Justin e others from joining them laughed both at those who framed these falsehoods, and at the disguise itself and at popular opinion and I confess that I both boast and with all my...
James 1:21 Therefore G1352 aside G659 (G5642) all G3956 filthiness G4507 and G2532 overflow G4050 wickedness G2549 receiv
‘For which reason, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.' ‘For which reason' may apply to the previous...
James 1:21. WHEREFORE, seeing that the wrath of man does not promote the righteousness of God, LAY APART, divest yourself of, ALL FILTHINESS, pollution. By some this word is taken by itself, but it is...
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...
WHEREFORE (διο). Because of this principle. See Ephesians 4:25.PUTTING AWAY (αποθεμενο). Second aorist middle participle of αποτιθημ, to put off, metaphor of removing clothing as in Romans 13:12;...
SAVE (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
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...
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 apostle,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
RID YOURSELVES. "Get rid of those things which will destroy you!" EVERY FILTHY HABIT. Evil desires, greed, drunkenness, immorality, etc. The false teachers were _addicted_ to these things. ALL WICKED...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 1:21 PUT AWAY ALL FILTHINESS pictures taking off dirty clothes (compare Romans 13:12;...
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
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 1:19. WRATH.—ὀργήν; an abiding, settled habit of mind with the purpose of revenge. James 1:21. FILTHINESS.—Not limited to sensualities, but including everything...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:2; 1 Peter 1:9; 1 Peter 2:1; 1 Peter 2:11;...
Filthiness [ρ υ π α ρ ι α ν]. Only here in New Testament, but James uses the kindred adjective (ch. 2 2), "vile raiment." 'Rupov, filth, occurs in 1Pe 3:21 - on which see notes; and the verb rJupow, t...
Therefore laying aside — As a dirty garment. All the filthiness and superfluity of wickedness — For however specious or necessary it may appear to worldly wisdom, all wickedness is both vile, hateful,...
These words are. direction given for the right hearing of, and due profiting by the word of God. In order to the former, our apostle shews, 1. What we must lay aside, namely, ALL FILTHINESS AND SUPER...