James 5:9

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Summary

James 5:9

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

Grudge not

Lest

Matthew 6:14

Matthew 7:1

The judge

General references

Matthew 24:44

Luke 21:19

Hebrews 10:37

Bible References

Grudge not

Stop talking against one another, brothers. Whoever is in the habit of talking against a brother or of criticizing his brother is criticizing and condemning the law. But if you are in the habit of criticizing the law, you are not a practicer but a critic of the law.

So Herodias had it in for him and wanted to have him killed. But she could not have it done,

For the whole law is summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

Be ungrudgingly hospitable to one another.

Lest

"For if you forgive others their shortcomings your heavenly Father will forgive you, too.

"Stop criticizing others, so that you may not be criticized yourselves.

The judge

So when you see all these things, you will know that He is right at your door.

So you must stop forming any premature judgments, but wait until the Lord shall come again, for He will bring to light the secrets hidden in the dark and will make known the motives of men's hearts, and the proper praise will be awarded each of us.

Those things continued to befall them as warnings to others, and they were written down for the purpose of instructing us, in whose lives the climax of the ages has been reached.

I am now standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and feast with him, and he with me.

General references

So you, too, must continue to be ready, for at an hour you are not expecting Him the Son of Man will come.

By your endurance you will win your souls.

"In just a very little while, the Coming One will come and not delay;