Discovery BoxJames 2:3 
Context2:3 do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say, 1 “You sit here in a good place,” 2 and to the poor person, “You stand over there,” or “Sit on the floor”? 3
James 2:16
Context2:16 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, 4 what good is it?
James 4:4
Context4:4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? 5 So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
James 5:12
Context5:12 And above all, my brothers and sisters, 6 do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let your “Yes” be yes and your “No” be no, so that you may not fall into judgment.
1 tn Grk “and you pay attention…and say,” continuing the “if” clauses from v. 2. In the Greek text, vv. 2-4 form one long sentence.
2 tn Or “sit here, please.”
3 tn Grk “sit under my footstool.” The words “on the floor” have been supplied in the translation to clarify for the modern reader the undesirability of this seating arrangement (so also TEV, NIV, CEV, NLT). Another option followed by a number of translations is to replace “under my footstool” with “at my feet” (NAB, NIV, NRSV).
4 tn Grk “what is necessary for the body.”
5 tn Grk “is hostility toward God.”
6 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.
