James 1:15
Then twhen lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, ubringeth forth death.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
εἶτα ἡ ἐπιθυμία συλλαβοῦσα τίκτει ἁμαρτίαν· ἡ δὲ ἁμαρτία ἀποτελεσθεῖσα ἀποκύει θάνατον.
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Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Psalms 7:13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
Romans 6:21-6:23 21. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Psalms 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
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Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
lust (compared to a harlot) may be said to conceive, when the heart is pleased with the motion, and yields some consent to it.
the birth of sin may be the complete consent of the will to it, or the outward act of it.
actual sin, the fruit and product of original.
sin is finished, when it is not only committed, but continued in, as the way and course of a man’s life.
not only temporal, but eternal. Or we may thus take the order and progress of sin: the first indeliberate motion of lust, is the temptation or bait, which by its pleasantness enticeth, and by its vehemency draws the heart after it (as the harlot, Pro 7:21, with the flattering of her lips forced the young man, telling him of the pleasure he should enjoy, Jas 1:14,16-18, and then he goes after her, Jas 1:22); the heart’s lingering about and being entangled with the delightful motion of lust, is its committing folly with it; when the full consent is joined, lust hath conceived; when the outward act is performed, sin is brought forth; and when sin is finished in a settled course, it brings forth death; which, though every sin do in the merit of it, yet sin only finished doth in the event.
Doth not this imply lust, and its first motions, not to be sin?
No: for;
1. The least motions of it are forbidden, Mat 5:28 Rom 7:7.
2. It is contrary to the law and Spirit of God, Rom 7:23,25 Ga 5:16,17.
3. It is the fountain of impurity, and therefore is itself impure, Job 14:4 Mat 7:15,16 Jas 3:11.
4. Evil thoughts defile a man, Mat 15:19 Act 8:22.
How is lust said here to bring forth sin, when, Rom 7:8, sin is said to work lust?
James calls the corrupt principle itself lust, and the actings of it, sin; whereas Paul calls the same principle sin, and the actings of it lust. And so both are true, lust, as a root, brings forth the acts of sin as its fruits; and sin as a root, brings forth actual lusts, as its fruits.