James 1:4

1:4 And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

James 1:22

1:22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

James 2:1

Prejudice and the Law of Love

2:1 My brothers and sisters, ¹  do not show prejudice ²  if you possess faith ³  in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ 

James 2:6

2:6 But you have dishonored the poor! ⁵  Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

James 2:21

2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

James 3:10-11

3:10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters. ⁶  3:11 A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?

James 3:14

3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

James 4:3

4:3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

James 4:17

4:17 So whoever knows what is good to do ⁷  and does not do it is guilty of sin. ⁸ 

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¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

² tn Or “partiality.”

³ tn Grk “do not have faith with personal prejudice,” with emphasis on the last phrase.

⁴ tn Grk “our Lord Jesus Christ of glory.” Here δόξης (doxhs) has been translated as an attributive genitive.

⁵ tn This is singular: “the poor person,” perhaps referring to the hypothetical one described in vv. 2-3.

⁶ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

⁷ tn Or “knows how to do what is good.”

⁸ tn Grk “to him it is sin.”