James
4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in your members?.(*)
James
4:2 You lust.(original
'desire with passion to take whatever efforts to obtain' –.because
in our superficial erroneous and 'insane' thinking we believe this will
somehow complete us), and have not. You kill and desire to
have, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you have not, because you
ask not..(*)
James
4:3 You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume
it upon your lusts..(*)
James
4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses.(it
is not sensuality here meant {as the context.elicits},
but greed and worldliness generally), know you not that the
friendship of the world.(*).is
enmity
with God?
A
lot of people trust in money, and have not yet reached the place in their
existence on earth where spiritual concerns supersede
physical identifications:.Matthew
19:23
James
4:5 Do you think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
dwells in us lusts.(original
is 'excessively desires').to
envy.(original
is same word as 'sin', and means to 'miss the mark'; saying that that is
the way we are, the way we are built; the way we came here; the nature
we have – subject to constantly missing the mark)?
James
4:6 But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the
proud,
but gives grace unto the
humble.
James
4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil.(how?),
and he will flee from you.
James
4:8 Draw near to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands,
you.(word
'ye' {old English for 'you', not in original).sinners
and purify your hearts, you.(word
'ye', here also not in original) double minded.(no settled principles;
not grounded in the faith yet
{*};
being of 2 minds, one negative {the monster in you; you at your worst;
the
mass mind thinking of the majority of humankind}, and the higher side
of your expression, or the good you know how to be, and it's your selection
of which one you'll give energy to:.Matthew
7:13,14).
James
4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaks evil of
his brother and judges his brother, speakes evil of the law and judges
the law: but if you judge the law, you art not a doer of the law, but a
judge..(*)
James
4:13 Go to now, you.(those
that figure they are in charge of their lives 1)
2).that
say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a
year and buy and sell and get gain.
James
4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is
your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then
vanisheth away.(so,
what
to do then?).
James
4:15 For that you ought to say, If
the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
James
4:16 But now you rejoice in your boastings. All such rejoicing is evil.
James
4:17 Therefore to him that knows to do good and does it not, to him
it is sin.
James
5:1.Go
to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come
upon you.
James
5:2,3 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are motheaten. Your
gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against
you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure
together for the last days.
James
5:4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields,
which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which
have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord
of sabaoth.
James
5:5,6 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you
have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. You have condemned
and killed the just; and he does not resist you.
James
5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the
coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit
of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early
and latter rain.
James
5:8 Be you also patient; stablish your hearts, for the
coming of the Lord draws nigh.
James
5:9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned.
Behold, the judge standeth before the door.
James
5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven,
neither by the earth, neither by any other oath. But let your yea be yea;
and your nay, nay; lest you fall into condemnation.
James
5:13 Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merry? let him
sing psalms.
James
5:14 Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church,
and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
James
5:15 And the prayer.(the
original meaning involves 'the prominent thought is that of boldness and
freedom in approach to God').of
faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have
committed sins, they shall be.("shall
be" not in original; inserted for clarity in reading, but does slightly
change the tenor;
better if it had said: 'they are forgiven').forgiven
him.
James
5:16 Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another, that
ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth
much.
James
5:17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed
earnestly.(word
earnestly not in original Greek).that
it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth by the space of three
years and six months.
James
5:18 And he prayed again and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought
forth her fruit.
James
5:20 Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from the error
of his way saves a soul from death and hides.(covers
- how?).a
multitude of sins..(also
1Peter
4:8)
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