geneva - James:3-5

geneva@James:3:1 @ My (note:)The sixth part or place: Let no man usurp (as most men ambitiously do) authority to judge and censure others harshly.(:note) brethren, be not many masters, A reason: Because they provoke God's anger against themselves, who do so eagerly and harshly condemn others, being themselves guilty and faulty. knowing that we Unless we cease from this imperious and proud finding of fault with others. shall receive the greater condemnation.

geneva@James:3:2 @ For in many things we offend all. (note:)The seventh place, concerning the bridling of the tongue, joined with the former, so that it is revealed that there is no man in who can not justly be found fault as well, seeing as it is a rare virtue to bridle the tongue.(:note) If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.

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geneva@James:3:4 @ Behold also the shippes, which though they be so great, and are driuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, whither soeuer the gouernour listeth.

geneva@James:3:5 @ Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. (note:)On the contrary part he shows how great inconveniences arise by the excesses of the tongue, throughout the whole world, to the end that men may so much the more diligently give themselves to control it.(:note) Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

geneva@James:3:6 @ And the tongue [is] a fire, a (note:)A heap of all mischiefs.(:note) world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and It is able to set the whole world on fire. setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

geneva@James:3:7 @ For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man.

geneva@James:3:8 @ But the tongue can no man tame. It is an vnruly euill, full of deadly poyson.

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geneva@James:3:11 @ Doeth a fountaine send forth at one place sweete water and bitter?

geneva@James:3:12 @ Can ye figge tree, my brethren, bring forth oliues, either a vine figges? so can no fountaine make both salt water and sweete.

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geneva@James:3:14 @ But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth.

geneva@James:3:15 @ This wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, and deuilish.

geneva@James:3:16 @ For where enuying and strife is, there is sedition, and all maner of euill workes.

geneva@James:3:17 @ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of (note:)He sets mercy against the fierce and cruel nature of man, and shows that heavenly wisdom brings forth good fruits, for he that is heavenly wise, refers all things to God's glory, and the profit of his neighbours.(:note) mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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geneva@James:4:1 @ From (note:)He advances the same argument, condemning certain other causes of wars and contentions, that is, unbridled pleasures and uncontrolled lusts, by their effects, for so much as the Lord does worthily make them come to no effect, so that they bring nothing to them in whom they reside, but incurable torments.(:note) whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?

geneva@James:4:2 @ Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, (note:)He reprehends them by name, who are not ashamed to make God the minister and helper of their lusts and pleasures, in asking things which are either in themselves unlawful or being lawful, ask for them out of wicked motives and uses.(:note) because ye ask not.

geneva@James:4:3 @ Ye aske, and receiue not, because ye aske amisse, that ye might lay the same out on your pleasures.

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geneva@James:4:6 @ But the Scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble.

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geneva@James:4:8 @ Drawe neere to God, and he will drawe nere to you. Clense your handes, ye sinners, and purge your hearts, ye double minded.

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geneva@James:4:10 @ Cast downe your selues before the Lord, and he will lift you vp.

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geneva@James:4:12 @ There is one Lawgiuer, which is able to saue, and to destroy. Who art thou that iudgest another man?

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geneva@James:4:14 @ (And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)

geneva@James:4:15 @ For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, and, if we liue, we will doe this or that.

geneva@James:4:16 @ But nowe ye reioyce in your boastings: all such reioycing is euill.

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geneva@James:5:1 @ Go (note:)He denounces utter destruction to the wicked and profane rich men, and such as are drowned in their riotousness, mocking their foolish confidence when there is nothing indeed more vain than such things.(:note) to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].

geneva@James:5:2 @ Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth eaten.

geneva@James:5:3 @ Your gold and siluer is cankred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnesse against you, and shall eate your flesh, as it were fire. Ye haue heaped vp treasure for the last dayes.

geneva@James:5:4 @ Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the (note:)The Lord who is more mighty than ye are, hath heard them.(:note) ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

geneva@James:5:5 @ Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have (note:)You have pampered yourselves.(:note) nourished your hearts, as in a The Hebrews call a day that is appointed to solemn banqueting, a day of slaughter or feasting. day of slaughter.

geneva@James:5:6 @ Ye haue condemned and haue killed the iust, and he hath not resisted you.

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geneva@James:5:8 @ Be ye also patient therefore and settle your hearts: for ye comming of the Lord draweth nere.

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geneva@James:5:11 @ Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the (note:)What end the Lord gave.(:note) end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

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geneva@James:5:15 @ And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed (note:)He has reason in making mention of sins, for diseases are often sent because of sins.(:note) sins, they shall be forgiven him.

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geneva@James:5:17 @ Helias was a man subiect to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rayne, and it rayned not on the earth for three yeeres and sixe moneths.

geneva@James:5:18 @ And he prayed againe, and the heauen gaue rayne, and the earth brought forth her fruite.

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geneva@James:5:20 @ Let him knowe that he which hath conuerted the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall saue a soule from death, and shal hide a multitude of sinnes.

geneva@Jude:1:1 @ Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and (note:)This is to distinguish between him and Judas Iscariot.(:note) brother of James, to them that are sanctified By God the Father. by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, [and] called: