SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:13
¶ Cuando alguno es tentado, no diga que es tentado de Dios; porque Dios no puede ser tentado de los males, ni l tienta a alguno;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - James 1:13
Verse 13. Let no man say] Lest the former sentiment should be misapplied, as the word temptation has two grand meanings, solicitation to sin, and trial from providential situation or circumstances, James, taking up the word in the former sense, after having used it in the latter, says: Let no man say, when he is tempted, (solicited to sin,) I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he (thus) any man. Thus the author has explained and guarded his meaning.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. Let no man say when he is tempted , etc.] Here the apostle uses the word tempted, in another sense than he did before. Before he speaks of temptations, as matter of joy and boasting, here of temptations, which are criminal, and issue in shame and death; the temptations he before makes mention of, being patiently endured, denominate men happy, but here such are designed, which are to be deprecated, and watched against; before he treats of temptations, which were the means of trying and exercising grace, and of purging away the dross of sin and corruption, but here of temptations to sin, and which are in themselves sinful; before he discourses of temptations in which God was concerned; but here of temptations which he removes from him, and denies of him, as being unworthy of him: wherefore, when any man is tempted to sin, whether when under adversity, or in prosperity, let him not say, I am tempted of God ; for God is holy, and without iniquity, nor does he delight in sin, but hates and abhors it; nor can he commit it, it being contrary to his nature, and the perfections of it; whereas no one can tempt another to sin, unless he is sinful himself, and delights in sin, and in those that commit it, nor without committing it himself; and yet sinful men are apt to charge God with their sins, and temptations to them, in imitation of their first parent, Adam, when fallen, ( Genesis 3:12) who, to excuse himself, lays the blame upon the woman, and ultimately upon God, who gave her to him; and suggests, that if it had not been for the woman, he should not have ate of the forbidden fruit, nor should he have had any temptation to it, had not God given him the woman to be with him, and therefore it was his fault; and in this sad manner do his sons and daughters reason, who, when, through affliction, they murmur against God, distrust his providence, or forsake his ways, say, if he had not laid his hand upon them, or suffered such afflictions to befall them, they had not been guilty of such sin: he himself is the occasion of them; but let no man talk at this wicked rate, for God cannot be tempted with evil ; or evils, He was tempted by the Israelites at Massah and Meribah, from which those places had their names, who by their murmuring, distrust and unbelief, proved and tried his patience and his power; and so he may be, and has been tempted by others in a like way; he may be tempted by evil men, and with evil things, but he cannot be tempted to evil, as the Ethiopic version renders it; he is proof against all such temptations: he cannot be tempted by anything in himself, who is pure and holy, or by any creature or thing without him, to do any sinful action: neither tempteth he any man ; that is, to sin; he tempted Abraham, to try his faith, love, and obedience to him; he tempted the Israelites in the wilderness, to try them and humble them, and prove what was in their hearts; and he tempted Job, and tried his faith and patience; and so he tempts and tries all his righteous ones, by afflictions, more or less: but he never tempts or solicits them to sin; temptations to sin come from another quarter, as follows.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-18 - It is not every man who suffers, that is blessed; but he who with patience and constancy goes through all difficulties in the way of duty. Afflictions cannot make us miserable, if it be not our own fault The tried Christian shall be a crowned one. The crown of life i promised to all who have the love of God reigning in their hearts Every soul that truly loves God, shall have its trials in this worl fully recompensed in that world above, where love is made perfect. The commands of God, and the dealings of his providence, try men's hearts and show the dispositions which prevail in them. But nothing sinful in the heart or conduct can be ascribed to God. He is not the author of the dross, though his fiery trial exposes it. Those who lay the blam of sin, either upon their constitution, or upon their condition in the world, or pretend they cannot keep from sinning, wrong God as if he were the author of sin. Afflictions, as sent by God, are designed to draw out our graces, but not our corruptions. The origin of evil an temptation is in our own hearts. Stop the beginnings of sin, or all the evils that follow must be wholly charged upon us. God has no pleasur in the death of men, as he has no hand in their sin; but both sin an misery are owing to themselves. As the sun is the same in nature an influences, though the earth and clouds, often coming between, make i seem to us to vary, so God is unchangeable, and our changes and shadow are not from any changes or alterations in him. What the sun is in nature, God is in grace, providence, and glory; and infinitely more. A every good gift is from God, so particularly our being born again, an all its holy, happy consequences come from him. A true Christia becomes as different a person from what he was before the renewin influences of Divine grace, as if he were formed over again. We shoul devote all our faculties to God's service, that we may be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
Greek Textus Receptus
μηδεις 3367 πειραζομενος 3985 5746 λεγετω 3004 5720 οτι 3754 απο 575 του 3588 θεου 2316 πειραζομαι 3985 5743 ο 3588 γαρ 1063 θεος 2316 απειραστος 551 εστιν 2076 5748 κακων 2556 πειραζει 3985 5719 δε 1161 αυτος 846 ουδενα 3762
Vincent's NT Word Studies
13. Of God (apo Qeou). Lit., from God. Not by God, as the direct agent, but by agency proceeding from God. Compare Matt. iv. 1, where the direct agency, "by the spirit," "by the devil," is expressed by uJpo. Cannot be tempted (apeirastov esti). Lit., is incapable of being tempted. But some of the best expositors render is unversed in evil things, as better according both with the usage of the word and with the context, since the question is not of God's being tempting, but of God's tempting. Rev. gives this in margin. 'Apeirastov only here in New Testament. Neither tempteth he (peirazei de autov). The A.V. fails to render aujtov: "He himself tempteth no man." So rev.
