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JAMES 1:13
Victor M. Eskew
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.
1. No man
A. Strong (3367): not even one (man, woman, thing)
B. Thayer: nobody, no one, nothing
C. Vine: no man (man stands for person)
2. Say
A. Strong (3004): to lay forth…relate…an individual expression or speech
B. Thayer: to say, to speak, affirm over, to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say
C. Vine: to speak, to affirm, whether of actual speech, or unspoken thought, or of a message in writing
3. Tempted
A. Strong (3985): to test, scrutinize, entice, discipline
B. Thayer: to try, make trial of…in a bad sense, to test one maliciously, craftily to put to the proof his feelings or judgments
C. Vine: of temptations to sin…James refers to temptation or trial, arising from within, from uncontrolled appetites and from evil passions
4. Cannot be tempted
A. Strong (551): not temptable
B. Thayer: that cannot be tempted by evil, not liable to temptation to sin
C. Vine: untempted, cannot be tempted, untemptable (Mayor)