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The Law that Frees
Commentators clarify that the 'perfect law of liberty' is not the Old Testament law, but the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is 'perfect' because it is God's complete revelation for salvation, and a law of 'liberty' because it frees believers from the bondage of sin and enables joyful, willing obedience through the Spirit, rather than fearful compliance.
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James
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Albert Barnes
On James 1:25
18th Century
Theologian
But whoever looks. parakuqav. This word means to stoop down near anything, to bend forward near, so as to look at anything more c…
AT Robertson
On James 1:25
He that looketh into (ο παρακυψας). First aorist active articular participle of παρακυπτω, old verb, to stoop and look into ([Refe…
Charles Ellicott
On James 1:25
19th Century
Bishop
But whoso looketh . . .—Translate, But he who looked into the perfect law of liberty and continued therein. The past tens…
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Charles Spurgeon
On James 1:22–26
19th Century
Preacher
But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if any man is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On James 1:25
In contrast to those who listen to the Word but do not do what it says, James now describes one who both listens and puts into practice what has be…
John Calvin
On James 1:25
16th Century
Theologian
The perfect law of liberty. After speaking of empty speculation, he now comes to that penetrating intuition which transforms us into the i…
John Gill
On James 1:25
17th Century
Pastor
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty
By which is meant, not the moral law, but the Gospel; for only o…
Matthew Henry
On James 1:22–25
17th Century
Minister
If we heard a sermon every day of the week, and an angel from heaven were the preacher, yet, if we relied on hearing only, it would never bring us …