james-4:14-15

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - James 4:13-17

God's Will About the Future* A Sermon (No. 2242) Intended for Reading on Lord's-Day, February 7th, 1892, Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington On Thursday Evening, October 16th, 1890. EDITOR'S NOTE: This Sermon was published the week of Spurgeon's death. The great preacher died in Mentone, France, January 31, 1892. This and the next few Sermons in the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit were printed with a black mourning band circling the margins. A footnote... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - James 4:1-17

Chapter 4This chapter could be entitled how to win friends and influence people. Guard your tongue, bring your tongue under control, use it for good, use it to encourage to build up, don't use it to tear down, to destroy, to cut, to hurt. Your wisdom, let it be Godly wisdom let it be demonstrated in your manner of life, that is your life let it be pure. Let your life be peaceable, merciful. Now this fruit of righteousness that we desire is actually sown in peace and that fruit of righteousness... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - James 4:1-17

James 4:1-2 . From whence come wars and fightings among you? St. James saw in the Spirit the bloody and cruel wars which would rise among christian powers, much the same as among the heathen. He had a clear conviction that the cause of wars is uniformly the same, namely, evil concupiscence, pride, avarice, revenge. The prophet Isaiah assigns the same reason for all wars, the pride of the human heart, Judah envying Ephraim, and Ephraim vexing Judah. Isaiah 11:13. He also adds the promise,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - James 4:13-17

James 4:13-17To-day or to-morrow we will goSinful confidence regarding the futureI.THE SPIRIT WHICH IS HERE CONDEMNED. 1. The confident expectation of prolonged existence. Here was a purpose formed in which there was no recognition whatever of the uncertainty of life or of dependence on God, in which the future was calculated on with unhesitating confidence. Thus do multitudes presume on the permanence of that which the next moment may be gone like the vapour which the morning sun dissipates or... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - James 4:14

14 Whereas ye 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. Ver. 14. Ye know not what, &c. ] God delights to cross such vain boasters, and to confute their confidences, that speak and live as if their lives were riveted upon eternity. They might easily observe that many things happen between the cup and the lip, between the chin and the chalice. Ne glorietur igitur accinctus quasi discinctus.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - James 4:15

15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. Ver. 15. If the Lord will, &c. ] εαν Θεος εθελη . So Socrates taught Alcibiades to say, "If God will," &c. And another could say, " Nullius est felix conatus et utilis unquam, Consilium si non detque iuvetque Deus. " read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - James 4:14

It is: or, For it is a vapour: James 1:10, Job 7:6, Job 7:7, Job 9:25, Job 9:26, Job 14:1, Job 14:2, Psalms 39:5, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 90:5-Judges :, Psalms 102:3, Isaiah 38:12, 1 Peter 1:24, 1 Peter 4:7, 1 John 2:17 Reciprocal: Genesis 27:2 - I know not Genesis 47:9 - an hundred Exodus 8:10 - To morrow Judges 19:9 - to morrow 2 Samuel 19:34 - How long have I to live 1 Kings 19:2 - to morrow 1 Kings 22:27 - until I come in peace 1 Chronicles 29:15 - our days Psalms 39:6 - a vain show Psalms... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - James 4:15

If: 2 Samuel 15:25, 2 Samuel 15:26, Proverbs 19:21, Lamentations 3:37, Acts 18:21, Romans 1:10, Romans 15:32, 1 Corinthians 4:19, 1 Corinthians 16:7, Hebrews 6:3 Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 5:19 - inquired Job 22:28 - decree Psalms 37:5 - and Luke 12:18 - General Philippians 2:19 - But read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - James 4:15

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.Instead of your saying — That is, whereas ye ought to say. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - James 4:15

15. To say In word or in heart. The precise and perfunctory utterance of the formula is of far less value than the deep consciousness of our own evanescent nature, and our deep dependence on God, consummated in a complete committal, ever renewed daily and hourly, of ourselves into his hand. read more