Discovery BoxJames 2:2 
Context2:2 For if someone 1 comes into your assembly 2 wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,
James 3:3
Context3:3 And if we put bits into the mouths of horses to get them to obey us, then we guide their entire bodies. 3
James 4:13
Context4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town 4 and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
1 tn The word for “man” or “individual” here is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” But as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, “equivalent to τὶς someone.”
2 tn Grk “synagogue.” Usually συναγωγή refers to Jewish places of worship (e.g., Matt 4:23, Mark 1:21, Luke 4:15, John 6:59). The word can be used generally to refer to a place of assembly, and here it refers specifically to a Christian assembly (BDAG 963 s.v. 2.b.).
3 tn Grk “their entire body.”
4 tn Or “city.”
