James
Verses from the book of James
James 1:1
Jacob, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Diaspora: Greetings.
Read commentary →James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Read commentary →James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
Read commentary →James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
Read commentary →James 1:11
For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
Read commentary →James 1:12
Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which he promised to those who love him.
Read commentary →James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Read commentary →James 1:15
Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
Read commentary →James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
Read commentary →James 1:18
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Read commentary →James 1:19
This you know, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
Read commentary →James 1:21
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Read commentary →James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
Read commentary →James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
Read commentary →James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect Law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
Read commentary →James 1:26
If anyone thinks himself to be religious while he does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.
Read commentary →James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Read commentary →James 2:1
My brothers, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.
Read commentary →James 2:2
For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;
Read commentary →James 2:10
For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
Read commentary →James 2:11
For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
Read commentary →James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Read commentary →James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
Read commentary →James 2:18
Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
Read commentary →James 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
Read commentary →James 2:20
But do you want to know, foolish man, that faith apart from works is dead?
Read commentary →James 2:21
Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
Read commentary →James 2:25
In like manner was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
Read commentary →James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
Read commentary →James 3:1
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
Read commentary →James 3:2
For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
Read commentary →James 3:3
Now if we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, we guide their whole body.
Read commentary →James 3:4
Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.
Read commentary →James 3:5
So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
Read commentary →James 3:7
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
Read commentary →James 3:9
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
Read commentary →James 3:10
Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Read commentary →James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
Read commentary →James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.
Read commentary →James 3:15
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
Read commentary →James 3:16
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
Read commentary →James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.
Read commentary →James 3:18
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Read commentary →James 4:1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Do not they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Read commentary →James 4:3
You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Read commentary →James 4:4
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Read commentary →James 4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit which He made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?
Read commentary →James 4:7
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Read commentary →James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Read commentary →James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Read commentary →James 4:11
Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Read commentary →James 4:12
Only one is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Read commentary →James 4:15
For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
Read commentary →James 4:17
To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Read commentary →James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
Read commentary →James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
Read commentary →James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Read commentary →James 5:5
You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
Read commentary →James 5:6
You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He does not resist you.
Read commentary →James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
Read commentary →James 5:8
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
Read commentary →James 5:9
Do not grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
Read commentary →James 5:10
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Read commentary →James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
Read commentary →James 5:12
But above all things, my brothers, do not swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you do not fall under judgment.
Read commentary →James 5:13
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
Read commentary →James 5:14
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
Read commentary →James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
Read commentary →James 5:17
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
Read commentary →James 5:18
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
Read commentary →James 5:19
My brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,
Read commentary →James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
Read commentary →James 1:14
But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
Read commentary →James 1:24
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
Read commentary →James 2:3
and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" but you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"
Read commentary →James 2:4
haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
Read commentary →James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
Read commentary →James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
Read commentary →James 2:8
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
Read commentary →James 2:9
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
Read commentary →James 2:16
and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you did not give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
Read commentary →James 2:22
You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;
Read commentary →James 2:23
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.
Read commentary →James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
Read commentary →James 3:8
But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
Read commentary →James 3:12
Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Nor is salt water able to produce sweet.
Read commentary →James 4:2
You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Read commentary →James 4:6
But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
Read commentary →James 4:13
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let us go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
Read commentary →James 4:14
Whereas you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away .
Read commentary →James 5:15
and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Read commentary →James 5:20
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
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