Comparisons “Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.” James 1.21 James is a master at using specific and often unique words. A careful study…
Listening “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.” James 1.19, 20 “Wherefore” indicates a connection between what had…
Biblical Esteem “Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.” James 1.9, 10 It seems that the modern…
Effective Praying “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. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing…
Testing “Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.” James 1.3 Someone once quipped, “A Christian is well-nigh useless until he has been placed in the crucible of God’s testing.” Before having been placed there myself, I thought…