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James 4 Bible study: He gives more grace
In James 4, fight and make war (4:2) are verbs Strong's ties to the fightings and wars of 4:1. And "Resist the devil" (4:7) has another Greek verb than "God resists the proud" (4:6).
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“But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.””
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“James 4:1 speaks of "your pleasures that war in your members", and 4:3 of spending it "on your pleasures".”
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Where do wars and fightings come from?
The chapter opens with a question, and answers it with another: "Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?" (4:1) (tap wars, fightings, pleasures). It goes on, "You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask." (4:2) (tap covet), and "You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures." (4:3). These notes quote this chapter as the WEB has it, explain it no further than its own words and the lexicons, and apply it to no war, conflict, church or person, then or now. They draw from 4:2-3 no promise and no rule about asking.
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- "Where do wars and fightings among you come from?" (4:1). What does the letter say?
- "Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”" (4:13). Does the letter say it's wrong to make plans?
- "and doesn’t do it" (4:17). Can leaving good undone be sin?
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- He gives more grace
- Don’t speak against one another
- Come now, you who say
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The Greek word behind it
καταλαλέωkatalaleosay kat-al-al-EH-o
Strong's: "to be a traducer, i.e. to slander". "Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law." (4:11): behind speak against and both speaks againsts is this one verb, three times in one verse (in all eight editions TAGNT compares), and James has it only in this verse (counted in RP2018).
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James 4 Bible study questions
- 1"Be subject therefore to God." (4:7). What does that look like in an ordinary week for you?
- 2"Don’t speak against one another, brothers." (4:11). What helps you keep from speaking against someone?
- 3The chapter sets "Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city" (4:13) beside "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that." (4:15). How do you hold your plans for this week?
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