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Selected Verse: James 1:16 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jas 1:16 |
King James |
Do not err, my beloved brethren. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Do not err in attributing to God temptation to evil; nay (as he proceeds to show), "every good," all that is good on earth, comes from God. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Do not err, my beloved brethren - This is said as if there were great danger of error in the point under consideration. The point on which he would guard them, seems to have been in respect to the opinion that God was the author of sin, and that the evils in the world are to be traced to him. There was great danger that they would embrace that opinion, for experience has shown that it is a danger into which men are always prone to fall. Some of the sources of this danger have been already alluded to. Notes, Jam 1:13. To meet the danger he says that, so far is it from being true that God is the source of evil, he is in fact the author of all that is good: every good gift, and every perfect gift Jam 1:17, is from him, Jam 1:18. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Do not err - It is a grievous error to ascribe the evil and not the good which we receive to God. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Do not err - By supposing that God is the author of sin, or that he impels any man to commit it. |
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: