야고보서 4:1-11 KRV

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - James 4:8-10

James concludes with the demand for a godly humility. All through the Bible there runs the conviction that it is only the humble who can know the blessings of God. God will save the humble person ( Job 22:29 ). A man's pride will bring him low; but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit ( Proverbs 29:23 ). God dwells on high, but he is also with him that is of a humble and a contrite spirit ( Isaiah 57:15 ). They that fear the Lord will humble their souls in his sight, and the greater... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - James 4:11-12

4:11-12 Stop talking harshly about each other. He who speaks harshly of his brother, or who judges his brother, speaks harshly of the law and judges the law; and, if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it. One is law-giver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge your neighbour? The word James uses for to speak harshly of, or, to slander is katalalein ( Greek #2635 ). Usually this verb means to slander someone when he is not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:1

From whence come wars and fightings among you ?.... Which are to be understood, not of public and national wars, such as might be between the Jews and other nations at this time; for the apostle is not writing to the Jews in Judea, as a nation, or body politic, but to the twelve tribes scattered abroad, and to such of them as were Christians; nor were Christians in general as yet increased, and become such large bodies, or were whole nations become Christians, and much less at war one... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:2

Ye lust, and have not ,.... The apostle proceeds to show the unsuccessfulness of many in their desires and pursuits after worldly things; some might be like the sluggard, whose soul desireth all good things, and yet he has nothing, Proverbs 13:4 because he does not make use of any means, even of such as are proper and necessary, and ought to be used: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; some, instead of kill, which seems not so agreeable, read envy; and then the sense is,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not ,.... Some there were that did ask of God the blessings of his goodness and providence, and yet these were not bestowed on them; the reason was, because ye ask amiss ; not in the faith of a divine promise; nor with thankfulness for past mercies; nor with submission to the will of God; nor with a right end, to do good to others, and to make use of what might be bestowed, for the honour of God, and the interest of Christ: but that ye may consume it upon your... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adulteresses ,.... Not who were literally such, but in a figurative and metaphorical sense: as he is an adulterer that removes his affections from his own wife, and sets them upon another woman; and she is an adulteress that loves not her husband, but places her love upon another man; so such men and women are adulterers and adulteresses, who, instead of loving God, whom they ought to love with all their hearts and souls, set their affections upon the world, and the things... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:5

Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vain ?.... Some think that the apostle refers to a particular passage of Scripture in the Old Testament, and that he took it from Genesis 6:3 as some; or from Exodus 20:5 , as others; or from Deuteronomy 7:2 or from Job 5:6 or from Proverbs 21:10 others think he had in view some text in the New Testament; either Romans 12:2 or Galatians 5:17 and some have imagined that he refers to a passage in the apocryphal book: "For into a malicious... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:6

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"; than the world can give, whose friendship is courted by men; the least measure of grace, of faith, and hope, and love, and of a spiritual knowledge of Christ, and interest in him, and of peace, joy, and comfort, is more worth than all the world, and everything in it: or greater grace, more... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:7

To the will of God, with respect to worldly things, and be content with such things as are enjoyed, and be satisfied with the portion that is allotted; it is right and best for the people of God to leave themselves with him, to choose their inheritance for them, since by all their anxious cares, their striving and struggling, their impatient desires, wars and fightings, as they cannot add one cubit to their stature, so nothing to their worldly substance; and it becomes them to submit to God in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:8

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you ,.... This must be understood consistently with the perfection of God's immensity and omnipresence: the saints draw nigh to God when they present their bodies in his sanctuary; when they tread in his courts, and attend his ordinances; where they always find it good for them to draw nigh unto him; and blessed is the man that approaches to him in faith and fear: they draw nigh to him when they come to the throne of his grace, for grace and mercy... read more

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - James 4:8-10

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - James 4:11-12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - James 4:8

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