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James 1:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
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Role in This Section
This verse warns that the divided requester should not presume reception from the Lord.
Read It With
- James 1:2–8
Read James 1:7 with 1:2–8. This verse warns that the divided requester should not presume reception from the Lord. The complete unit establishes this movement: Readers should reckon diverse trials as an occasion for joy because tested faith produces endurance toward wholeness, and anyone lacking wisdom should ask the generous God with an undivided trust rather than wavering between loyalties.
Why It Needs Context
This verse warns that the divided requester should not presume reception from the Lord. Its contribution depends on James 1:2–8; isolated teaching would detach the line from the letter's complete movement.
Read James 1:2–8 together
Why these verses belong together: Trial, tested faith, endurance, lack, generous wisdom, prayer, and divided allegiance form one progression.
Verse 2. 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Verse 3. 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Verse 4. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Verse 5. 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Verse 6. 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Verse 7. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Verse 8. 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read James 1:2–8 — Trials Produce Endurance; Wisdom Is Asked from GodSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: James 1:2–8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, clause relationships, and base text for original-language discussion.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT repository, data/sblgnt/text/Jas.txt, 1:2–8
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