Most Popular Bible Verses in James
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Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials,
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.
Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray over him after anointing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord.
Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning.
Pure and undefiled religion before our
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith
But
Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man, “Stand over there,” or, “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”
You have condemned—you have murdered—the righteous man; he does not resist you.
But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:
but gives grace to the humble.
Adulteresses!
My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
No one undergoing a trial should say, “I am being tempted by God.” For God is not tempted by evil,
A man who endures trials
You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe—and they shudder.
Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive a stricter judgment,
For the sun rises with its scorching heat and dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance is destroyed. In the same way, the rich man will wither away while pursuing his activities.
For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all.
My brothers, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double-minded people!
James,
To the 12 tribes
Greetings.
And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.
So it is a sin for the person who knows to do what is good and doesn’t do it.
Therefore, brothers, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.
But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires.
Who is wise and has understanding among you? He should show his works by good conduct with wisdom’s gentleness.
By His own choice, He gave us a new birth by the message of truth
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
Come now, you rich
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil,
You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
Indeed, if you keep the royal law prescribed in the Scripture, Love your neighbor as yourself,
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but one who does good works—this person will be blessed in what he does.
You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.
If anyone
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.
But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.”
My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth,
Listen, my dear brothers: Didn’t God choose the poor in this world
Now above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath.
Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?
Don’t criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will restore him to health; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
for we all stumble in many ways.
So the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness,
And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the whole body,
You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
We praise our
Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.
See, we count as blessed those who have endured.
For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
let him know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his life from death and cover a multitude of sins.
There is one lawgiver and judge
Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face
But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.
Yet you dishonored that poor man.
Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Don’t they blaspheme the noble name that was pronounced over you at your baptism?
Every sea creature, reptile, bird, or animal is tamed and has been tamed by man,
But if you show favoritism,
Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a saltwater spring yield fresh water.
Praising and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things should not be this way.
For He who said, Do not commit adultery,
For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.
Your wealth is ruined and your clothes are moth-eaten.
Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its fruit.
Your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days!
You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts
Now when we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us,
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy.
So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things.
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.
For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.
Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers
An indecisive
And in the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by a different route?
Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom.
Brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name as an example of suffering and patience.
but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
Or do you think it’s without reason the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?
Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was perfected.
Brothers, do not complain about one another, so that you will not be judged. Look, the judge stands at the door!
for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
And the fruit of righteousness
and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?