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 2:6

2:6 But you have dishonored the poor! ¹  Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

James 2:14

Faith and Works Together

2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, ²  if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith ³  save him? ⁴ 

James 2:16

2:16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, ⁵  what good is it?

James 3:5

3:5 So too the tongue is a small part of the body, ⁶  yet it has great pretensions. ⁷  Think ⁸  how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

James 3:12

3:12 Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, ⁹  or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.

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¹ tn This is singular: “the poor person,” perhaps referring to the hypothetical one described in vv. 2-3.

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

³ tn Grk “the faith,” referring to the kind of faith just described: faith without works. The article here is anaphoric, referring to the previous mention of the noun πίστις (pisti") in the verse. See ExSyn 219.

⁴ sn The form of the question in Greek expects a negative answer.

⁵ tn Grk “what is necessary for the body.”

⁶ tn Grk “a small member.”

⁷ tn Grk “boasts of great things.”

⁸ tn Grk “Behold.”

⁹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.