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- proper noun biblical Abbreviation of
James . - proper noun A
diminutive of the malegiven name James - proper noun A
diminutive of the femalegiven name Jasmine
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Examples
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Yes Jas is right, when you ride motorcycles you pick up more care and you see things that you would not.
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The same blame of being a judge, when one ought to be an obeyer, of the law is found in Jas 4: 11. 5.
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In a more general sense, it occurs in Jas 1: 18; Re 14: 4; so I understand it here including the more restricted sense. chosen you -- The Greek, is not the ordinary word for "elected," implying
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James does not add here, as in Jas 5: 1, "howl," where he foretells the doom of the impenitent at the coming destruction of Jerusalem. heaviness -- literally, "falling of the countenance," casting down of the eyes.
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The word for "double-minded" is found here and in Jas
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For -- resumed from "For" in Jas 1: 6. that man -- such a wavering self-deceiver. think -- Real faith is something more than a mere thinking or surmise. anything -- namely, of the things that he prays for: he does receive many things from God, food, raiment, &c., but these are the general gifts of
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Ye lust -- A different Greek word from that in Jas 4: 1.
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The true method of hearing is treated in Jas 1: 21-27, and Jas 2: 1-26. slow to speak -- (Pr 10: 19; 17: 27, 28; Ec 5: 2).
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Tittmann thinks not so much "wrath" is meant, as an indignant feeling of fretfulness under the calamities to which the whole of human life is exposed; this accords with the "divers temptations" in Jas 1: 2.
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The last subject is discussed in Jas 3: 13-4: 17. 1.
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