JAMES

Chapter 1

True Faith When Tested Will Triump by the Word

The Purpose of Trials

• 1. JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
  
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    • Ἰάκωβος θεοῦ καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ δοῦλος ταῖς δώδεκα φυλαῖς ταῖς ἐν τῇ διασπορᾷ χαίρειν
• 2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
  
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    • Πᾶσαν χαρὰν ἡγήσασθε ἀδελφοί μου ὅταν πειρασμοῖς περιπέσητε ποικίλοις
• 3. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
  
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    • γινώσκοντες ὅτι τὸ δοκίμιον ὑμῶν τῆς πίστεως κατεργάζεται ὑπομονήν
• 4. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
  
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    • ἡ δὲ ὑπομονὴ ἔργον τέλειον ἐχέτω ἵνα ἦτε τέλειοι καὶ ὁλόκληροι ἐν μηδενὶ λειπόμενοι
• 5. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
  
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    • Εἰ δέ τις ὑμῶν λείπεται σοφίας αἰτείτω παρὰ τοῦ διδόντος θεοῦ πᾶσιν ἁπλῶς καὶ μὴ ὀνειδίζοντος καὶ δοθήσεται αὐτῷ
• 6. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
  
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    • αἰτείτω δὲ ἐν πίστει μηδὲν διακρινόμενος ὁ γὰρ διακρινόμενος ἔοικεν κλύδωνι θαλάσσης ἀνεμιζομένῳ καὶ ῥιπιζομένῳ
• 7. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
  
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    • μὴ γὰρ οἰέσθω ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος ὅτι λήψεταί τι παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου
• 8. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
  
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    • ἀνὴρ δίψυχος ἀκατάστατος ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτοῦ
• 9. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
  
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    • Καυχάσθω δὲ ὁ ἀδελφὸς ὁ ταπεινὸς ἐν τῷ ὕψει αὐτοῦ
• 10. But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
  
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    • ὁ δὲ πλούσιος ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει αὐτοῦ ὅτι ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου παρελεύσεται
• 11. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
  
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    • ἀνέτειλεν γὰρ ὁ ἥλιος σὺν τῷ καύσωνι καὶ ἐξήρανεν τὸν χόρτον καὶ τὸ ἄνθος αὐτοῦ ἐξέπεσεν καὶ ἡ εὐπρέπεια τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ἀπώλετο· οὕτως καὶ ὁ πλούσιος ἐν ταῖς πορείαις αὐτοῦ μαρανθήσεται
• 12.↓ Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
  
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    • Μακάριος ἀνὴρ ὃς ὑπομένει πειρασμόν ὅτι δόκιμος γενόμενος λήψεταί τὸν στέφανον τῆς ζωῆς ὃν ἐπηγγείλατο ὁ Κύριος τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν
  • Notes
    • ° Love here is agapaō in Greek, which mean, You love Jesus with all your being.
      
      ° Enduring attacks from the enemy, and not yielding to temptation will produce LIFE
      ° This is different than the Imperishable Crown we studied earlier, that crown is for gaining mastery over the sin nature, not falling back into old behaviors, walking the straight and narrow, etc.
      ° This crown is for enduring any onslaught or attack from the enemy _MF-NCC
      
      

Perserverance in Temptation

• 13.↓ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
  
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    • μηδεὶς πειραζόμενος λεγέτω ὅτι Ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ πειράζομαι· ὁ γὰρ θεὸς ἀπείραστός ἐστιν κακῶν πειράζει δὲ αὐτὸς οὐδένα
  • Notes
    • I Corinthians 10:12 — Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
      I Corinthians 10:13 — There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
      
      ° God does not tempt you Himself, but He always provides a way out _MF-NCC
      
      
• 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed.
  
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    • ἕκαστος δὲ πειράζεται ὑπὸ τῆς ἰδίας ἐπιθυμίας ἐξελκόμενος καὶ δελεαζόμενος·
• 15.↓ Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
  
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    • εἶτα ἡ ἐπιθυμία συλλαβοῦσα τίκτει ἁμαρτίαν ἡ δὲ ἁμαρτία ἀποτελεσθεῖσα ἀποκύει θάνατον
  • Notes
    • ° if you resist temptation, the enemy will flee from you _MF-NCC
      
      James 4:7 — Submit yourselves therefore to God, Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
      
      ° Resisting evil will produce LIFE, however sin only produces death
      ° The enemy came to steal, kill, and destroy _MF-NCC
      
      Romans 6:23 — For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
      
      Return to →Inheritance & Rewards-The Crowns: The Crown of Life
      
      
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Hearing and Doing the Word

• 19. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
  
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    • Ὥστε, ἀδελφοί μου ἀγαπητοί· ἔστω πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ταχὺς εἰς τὸ ἀκοῦσαι βραδὺς εἰς τὸ λαλῆσαι βραδὺς εἰς ὀργήν·
• 20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
  
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    • ὀργὴ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς δικαιοσύνην θεοῦ οὐ κατεργάζεται
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