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Greeting to the Twelve Tribes

1 James, aa bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.  

Profiting from Trials

2 My brethren, acount it all joy bwhen you fall into various trials,  
3 aknowing that the testing of your faith produces1 patience.  
4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be1 perfect and complete, lacking nothing.  
5 aIf any of you lacks wisdom, blet him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and cit will be given to him.  
6 aBut let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.  
7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
8 he is aa double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.  

The Perspective of Rich and Poor

9 Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation,
10 but the rich in his humiliation, because aas a flower of the field he will pass away.  
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James 1:3

Knowing (ginwskontev). Present active participle of ginwskw (experimental knowledge, the only way of getting this view of "trials" as "all joy").

The proof (to dokimion). Now known (Deissmann, Bible Studies, pp. 259ff.) from the papyri examples of dokimiov as an adjective in the same sense (good gold, standard gold) as dokimov proved or tested (James 1:12). The use of to dokimion (neuter article with neuter single adjective) here and in I Peter 1:7, clearly means "the genuine element in your faith," not "crucible" nor "proving." Your faith like gold stands the test of fire and is approved as standard. James here, as in verse James 1:6; James 2:1; James 5:15, regards faith (pistiv) like Paul "as the very foundation of religion" (Mayor).

Worketh (katergazetai). Present (durative) middle indicative of the compound verb with the perfective sense of kata as in Philippians 2:12, which see.

Patience (upomonhn). Old and common word for remaining under (upomenw), "staying power" (Ropes), as in Colossians 1:11.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing James 1:3:

James 1:12
James 5:7
James 5:11
1 Peter 1:7
2 Peter 1:6

 

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