Discovery BoxJames 1:19 
ContextLiving Out the Message
1:19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! 1 Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
James 1:23
Context1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone 2 who gazes at his own face 3 in a mirror.
James 1:26
Context1:26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.
James 3:13
ContextTrue Wisdom
3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings. 4
1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.
2 tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”
3 tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”
4 tn Grk “works in the gentleness of wisdom.”
