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(1) The principle established. My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. a. Do not hold the faith: The glorious faith we have, the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, should never be associated with partiality (discrimination).
If someone is suffering, and a believer merely wishes them well, rather than helping, what good is that? If we do not add action to our faith, our faith grows cold and inert. James asks his readers a rhetorical question: What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?
30 gru 2022 · James 2:14 - The well-known apparent “conflict” between James and Paul focuses especially on this verse. The Apostle Paul says emphatically: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8, 9).
James has already addressed the ‘ sin of partiality ’ that was being committed in this congregation in James 2:2-13. In this congregation the wealthy were being honored and the poor were being dishonored. (2:2-7) This is a terrible sin. Not only because it makes such distinctions but because it leads to more sinning against the poor as we ...
30 cze 2017 · The passage I just quoted, James 2:14-17, is often used to prove that good works are necessary for a person to have what they call final salvation before God. But what James is actually doing is calling for born-again people to apply what we believe.
30 gru 2022 · To have the Lord's name "named over them" is OT imagery for the Lord's ownership of his people (cf. 2 Chr 7:14; Amos 9:12; Isa 63:19; Jer 14:9; 15:16; Dan 9:19; Acts 15:17 ). Kistemaker - Christians revere the name of Jesus—a name that James describes as noble.
Faith must be embodied in acts: “faith, without acts of faith, is but a dream.” “The two cannot be separated, for they are given in one by God to man, and from him go back in one to God.
