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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 2:11

‘For he who said, “Do not commit adultery”, said also, “Do not murder”. Now if you do not commit adultery, but do murder, you are become a transgressor of the law.’ He then illustrates this from two basic laws, the law against adultery (the breaking up of a marriage relationship and the stealing of a man’s wife), and the law against murder (the stealing away from a man of his life by death, and of someone’s beloved relation by the ending of the life of that relation. Everyone murdered is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 2:12

‘So speak you, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of liberty.’ He then applies his words to the Christians who are hearing his letter read to them. They are to recognise this principle and speak and act accordingly, recognising that their words and their actions are to be judged by means of the perfect law, the law of liberty (James 1:25). But that law is not called the law of liberty because it frees men from the need to obey it and lowers God’s standards. It is called the ‘law of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 2:13

‘For judgment is without mercy to him who has showed no mercy. Mercy glories against judgment.’ He then finishes with two sayings which bring this out. The first is that the one who fails to show mercy will never find mercy. This is a reversal of Matthew 5:7, where Jesus said, ‘blessed (by God) are the merciful, for they will obtain mercy’. Here it is ‘cursed are the unmerciful, for they will obtain no mercy’. Or to put it another way, ‘if you do not forgive men when they sin against you,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - James 2:1-13

James 2:1-1 Chronicles : . This paragraph on Servility suits exhortation of Jews incomparably better than that of Christians, among whom “ not many rich” were found for generations. The scene of James 2:2 is the “ synagogue,” best taken in its literal sense; and acts of oppression towards “ the congregation of God’ s poor” are familiar to readers of the OT. “ Give up,” he pleads, “ trying to combine with acts of servility the belief in the Lord of Glory.” On the theory sketched in the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:11

All proof of what he laid down in the former verse, by instancing in these two commands, there being the same reason of all the rest, the same sovereignty and righteousness of God appearing in them, and it being the will of God to try our obedience in one as well as another. Thou art become a transgressor of the law; viz. by contemning the authority and holiness of God, which appears in the whole law, and every command of it. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:12

So speak ye, and so do: the apostle concluding his discourse about respecting persons, which consisted both in their words and actions, be directs them how to govern themselves in both. As they that shall be judged; viz. for both your words and actions, and that, not only in your own consciences at present, but at God’s tribunal hereafter. By the law of liberty; the gospel, of the liberty of which it is one branch, that these differences among men, of Jew and Gentile, bond and free, circumcised... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:13

For he shall have judgment without mercy; shall be judged according to the rigour of the law, by pure justice without any mixture of mercy. That hath showed no mercy; that hath been cruel and unmerciful to his neighbour here. And mercy rejoiceth against judgment; either, 1. The mercy of God rejoiceth and glorieth over judgment, being as it were superior and victorious in relation to those that show mercy, to whom the promise of obtaining. mercy is made, Matthew 5:7. Or rather: 2. The mercy of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - James 2:10-13

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESJames 2:10.—Omit word “point”; insert “precept” or “commandment.” Because the law is only the various application of one essential principle.James 2:13.—Render, “For the judgment shall be merciless to him that wrought not mercy.” Rejoiceth against.—Or, “triumphs over.” Shakespeare has, “When mercy seasons justice”; “The quality of mercy is not strained,” etc.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—James 2:10-13The Law of Liberty.—That is the name for the law under which... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - James 2:12

James 2:12 The Law of Liberty. Take these two words, "the law of liberty" liberty and law. They stand over against one another. Our first conception of them is as contradictory. The history of human life, we say, is a history of their struggle. They are foes. Law is the restraint of liberty. Liberty is the abrogation, the getting rid, of law. Each, so far as it is absolute, implies the absence of the other. But the expression of the text suggests another thought, that by the highest standards... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - James 2:12

DISCOURSE: 2364THE LAW OF LIBERTYJames 2:12. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.THE law of works contained in the Ten Commandments is continued in force under the Gospel dispensation, as a rule of life. This appears from the frequent reference which is made to it in the New Testament in this particular view. St. Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans, when inculcating the duty of love, says, “Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 2:11

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 2:12

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - James 2:13

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - James 2:1-13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:11

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:12

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - James 2:13

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - James 2:10-13

Sermon Bible Commentary - James 2:12

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - James 2:12

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