James 5:9 KJV — MannaFest

James 5:9

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

KJV

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ASV

Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.

WEB

Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!

YLT

murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

DBT

Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.

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James — The Lord's brother writes to the twelve tribes scattered abroad — five chapters of direct, practical wisdom on the life faith produces. Pure religion, the tongue, the prayer of the righteous.

Author: James the Lord's brother (traditional — cf. Gal 1:19), leader of the Jerusalem church
Date: Early — possibly mid-40s AD, making it likely the earliest NT letter

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James 5:8
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Luke 6:37
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Leviticus 19:18
Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
Philippians 2:14
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

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This Christian patience is not a mere yielding to necessity, as the moral patience taught by some philosophers was, but it is a humble acquiescence in the wisdom and will of God, with an eye to a future glorious recompense: Be patient to the coming of the Lord. And because this is a lesson Christians must learn, though ever so hard or difficult to the, it is repeated in

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(3.) The danger of our being condemned when the Judge appears should excite us to mind our duty as before laid down: Grudge not, lest you be condemned. Fretfulness and discontent expose us to the just judgment of God, and we bring more calamities upon ourselves by our murmuring, distrustful, envious groans and grudgings against one another, than we are aware of.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The Greek is the same in both passages, and so ought to be translated here as there, "doors," plural. The phrase means "near at hand" (Ge 4:7), which in the oldest interpretations [Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem] is explained, "thy sin is reserved unto the judgment of the world to come." Compare "the everlasting doors" (Ps 24:7, whence He shall come forth).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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