The Truth about Conflicts

Excerpt

The chapter break falls in the middle of the third (3:13–4:10) section of the body of James’s letter. This section deals with the two different kinds of wisdom and is typified by two ways of life, that is, two kinds of friendship: the one with the world and the other with God. As the section continues in the fourth chapter, James expounds these two types of spiritual friendship, penetrating deeper into the basic problems of double-mindedness and self-deception and the corrective need of active faith.

In the second section of the letter, James sought to prove his point by specifying what his addressees were failing to do.

Now in section three he points out the failings that were obvious in what they were doing.

Richardson, Kurt A. James. Vol. 36. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1997. Print. The New American Commentary.

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