What Does James 1:7 Mean in the King James?
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
A request held beside divided trust cannot become a settled expectation of receiving.
THE MEANING
You can ask the Lord for wisdom while wavering between trust and doubt; this verse names how that divided posture leaves you without a settled expectation of receiving. The uncertainty lies between asking and relying on the One you ask.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you can remain divided in trust and still expect a settled reception from the Lord.
THE ROOT
λήμψεται
lēmpsetai
GROWS FROM
λαμβάνω
To take, receive, or lay hold of what is given.
The verb is a form of λαμβάνω (lambanō, to take or receive), a word with the sense of taking hold of what is given. Here, receiving sits inside a passage about wavering trust: the issue is not the request but the divided posture that cannot rest in what it asks for.
ALSO GROWS
paralambanō: To receive or take alongside.
παραλαμβάνω
This compound keeps the sense of taking something in; it shows receiving as an act of taking hold of what is offered.
epilambanomai: To take hold of or grasp.
ἐπιλαμβάνομαι
This related compound makes the grasping sense of the root visible, giving depth to the verse’s language of receiving.
THE PATTERN
An undivided seeking opens into finding and receiving.
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.THE THREAD
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.The word translated “receiveth” comes from λαμβάνω (lambanō, to receive), the same verb family as James’s “receive.” Matthew joins receiving to asking and seeking; James shows how wavering trust unsettles that posture.
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