James 4:2 — James 5:7

2 You ^1alust and do not have; you ^bmurder and are ^cjealous and are not able to obtain; you fight and make war. You do not have because you do not ask;

3 You ^aask and do not receive because you ask evilly that you may spend it on your ^bpleasures.

4 ^1aAdulteresses, do you not know that the ²friendship of the ^3bworld is enmity with God? Therefore whoever determines to be a ^cfriend of the world is constituted an ⁴enemy of God.

5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain: “The ¹Spirit, whom He has caused to ^2adwell in us, longs to envy”?

6 But He gives ^agreater grace; therefore ¹it says, ²“God resists the ^3bproud but gives grace to the ^chumble.”

7 ¹Be subject therefore to God; but ^2awithstand the ^3bdevil, and he will flee from you.

8 ^aDraw near to God, and He will ^bdraw near to you. ^cCleanse your hands, sinners, and ^dpurify your hearts, you ¹double-souled!

9 ¹Endure ^amisery and ^bmourn and ^cweep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into dejection.

10 ¹Be ^ahumbled before the Lord, and He will ^bexalt you.

11 Do not speak against ^aone another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or ^bjudges his brother speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a ^1cdoer of the law but a judge.

12 One is ^aLawgiver and ^bJudge, who is able to save and ^cdestroy. But who are you who ^djudge your neighbor?

13 Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we ¹will go into this or that city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit;

14 Whereas you do not know the matter of ^atomorrow, what your ^blife will be; for you are a ^1cvapor, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

15 Instead you ought to say, If the Lord ^awills, we will both live and do this or that.

16 But now you ^aboast in your ¹arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

17 ¹Therefore to him who ^aknows to do good and does not do it, to him it is ^bsin.

CHAPTER 5

1 Come now, you ^1arich, ^bweep, ^chowling over your miseries, which are coming upon you!

2 Your ^ariches have rotted and your garments have become ^bmoth-eaten;

3 Your gold and your silver have ^arusted, and their rust will be a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up ^btreasure in the last days.

4 Behold, the ^awages of the workmen who mowed your fields, which have been withheld by you, cry out; and the ¹cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the ²Lord of hosts.

5 You have lived ^aluxuriously on the earth and have ^bgiven yourselves to pleasure; you have ¹nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

6 You condemned, you murdered the ¹righteous; he does not ^aresist you.

7 Therefore be ¹long-suffering, ^abrothers, until the ^2bcoming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer eagerly ^cawaits the precious fruit of the earth, exercising long-suffering over it until it receives the early and late ^drain.

James 2:22 — James 4:1

22 You see that ^afaith worked together with his works, and by these works faith was perfected.

23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham ^abelieved God, and it was ^baccounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the ^cfriend of God.

24 You see that a man is ¹justified by ^aworks and not by ^bfaith only.

25 And in like manner was not also ^aRahab the harlot justified by works in that she received the messengers and ¹sent them out by a different way?

26 For just as the body without the ¹spirit is dead, so also faith without works is ^adead.

CHAPTER 3

1 Do not become many ^1ateachers, my ^bbrothers, knowing that we will receive greater ^2cjudgment.

2 For in many things we all stumble. If anyone does not stumble in ^aword, this one is a ^bperfect man, able to ^cbridle the whole body as well.

3 Now if we put ^abridles into the mouths of horses that they would obey us, we direct their whole body as well.

4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are directed by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the pilot wills.

5 So also the ^atongue is a little member yet boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest so little a ¹fire ignites!

6 And the tongue is a ^1afire; the very world of unrighteousness, the tongue is set among our members as that which ^bcontaminates the whole body and sets on fire the ²course of life and is set on fire by ³Gehenna.

7 For every nature, both of beasts and of birds, both of reptiles and of creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human ¹nature;

8 But the tongue no one among men is able to tame; it is a ¹restless evil, full of deadly ^apoison.

9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made according to the ^alikeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. These things, my brothers, ought not to be so.

11 Does the spring, out of the same ¹opening, gush forth the sweet and the bitter?

12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, produce olives? Or a vine, ^afigs? Neither can ¹salt water produce sweet.

13 Who is ^awise and understanding among you? Let him show ¹by his ^bgood manner of life his ^2cworks in ^3dmeekness of ^ewisdom.

14 But if you have bitter ^ajealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the ^btruth.

15 ¹This wisdom is not that which descends from ^aabove, but is ²earthly, ^bsoulish, ^cdemonic.

16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there ^adisorder and every worthless practice are.

17 But the ^1awisdom from above is first ^bpure, then ^cpeaceable, ²forbearing, ³compliant, full of ^dmercy and good ^efruit, ^fimpartial, ^gwithout hypocrisy.

18 And the ^1afruit of righteousness is ^bsown in ^cpeace ²by those who ^dmake peace.

CHAPTER 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Are they not from this, from your ^1apleasures that ^bwar in your members?

James 2:1 — James 2:21

1 My ^abrothers, do not hold the ^1bfaith of our Lord Jesus Christ ²of ^cglory with ^drespect of persons.

2 For if there comes into your ¹synagogue a man with ^agold rings in splendid clothing, and there also comes in a ^bpoor man in filthy clothing,

3 And you look upon the one wearing the splendid clothing and say, You sit here in a good place, and to the poor man you say, You stand there, or sit under my footstool;

4 Have you not made ^1adistinctions ²among yourselves and become judges with evil reasonings?

5 Listen, my beloved brothers: Did not God ^achoose the poor ¹in the world to be ^brich in faith and heirs of the ^2ckingdom, which He ^dpromised to those who ^3elove Him?

6 But you have ^adishonored the poor. Is it not the ^brich who oppress you and is it not they who ^cdrag you to the ¹courts?

7 Is it not they who blaspheme the ¹honorable ^aname ²by which you are called?

8 If indeed you are fulfilling the ¹royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall ^2alove your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;

9 But if you ^arespect persons, you ¹commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

10 For whoever ¹keeps the whole ^alaw yet stumbles in ^bone point has become guilty of all.

11 For He who said, Do not commit ^aadultery, also said, Do not murder. Now if you do not commit adultery, but you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

12 ¹So speak and so do as those who are to be ^ajudged by the ^2blaw of freedom.

13 For the judgment is without ^amercy to him who has shown no mercy; mercy ¹triumphs over judgment.

14 What is the profit, my brothers, if anyone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith ¹save him?

15 If a brother or sister ¹is ^awithout clothing and lacks daily food,

16 And any one of you says to them, ¹Go in peace, be warmed and filled, yet you do ^anot give them the ²necessities of the body, what is the profit?

17 So also ¹faith, if it does not have works, is ^adead ²in itself.

18 But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my ^aworks.

19 You believe that God is ^aone. You do well; the ^bdemons also believe and shudder.

20 But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith without its works is ¹useless?

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works in that he offered up ^aIsaac his son upon the altar?

James 1:1 — James 1:27

1 ¹James, a ^aslave of God and of the ²Lord Jesus Christ, to the ³twelve ^btribes in the ^4cdispersion: ⁵Rejoice!

2 Count it all ^ajoy, my ^bbrothers, whenever you fall into various ^1ctrials,

3 Knowing that the ^aproving of your ¹faith works out ^bendurance.

4 And let ^aendurance have its perfect work that you may be ^1bperfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

5 But if any one of you lacks ^1awisdom, let him ^2bask of God, who gives to all ³liberally and does ⁴not reproach, and it will be given to him.

6 But let him ask in ^afaith, ^1bdoubting nothing, for he who ¹doubts is like the surge of the ^csea, driven by the ^dwind and tossed about.

7 For that man must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

8 He is a ^1adouble-souled man, unstable in all his ways.

9 And let the lowly brother ¹boast in his ^2aexaltation,

10 And the ¹rich in his being brought low, because like a ^aflower of the grass he will ^bpass away.

11 For the ¹sun rises with its ²scorching heat and withers the ^agrass, and its flower falls off, and the ^bbeauty of its appearance is destroyed; so also the ^3crich man will fade away in his pursuits.

12 ^aBlessed is the man who endures ¹trial, because when he has become ²approved by testing, he will receive the ^3bcrown of ⁴life, which He ^cpromised to those who ^5dlove Him.

13 Let no one say when he is ^1atempted, I am tempted ²of God; for God ³cannot be tempted of evil, and He Himself ⁴tempts no one.

14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own ^alusts;

15 Then the lust, having conceived, ¹gives birth to sin; and the sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth ^adeath.

16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.

17 All good ¹giving and every perfect ^1agift is from ^babove, coming down from the ²Father of lights, with whom is no ^3cvariation or shadow cast by turning.

18 He ^1abrought us forth by the ²word of ^btruth, ³purposing that we might be a kind of ^4cfirstfruits of His creatures.

19 ¹You know this, my beloved brothers; but let every man be quick to hear, ²slow to ^aspeak, slow to ^bwrath;

20 For the ¹wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

21 Therefore ^aputting away all ^bfilthiness and the abundance of malice, receive in ^cmeekness the ¹implanted ^dword, which is able to ²save your souls.

22 And become ^adoers of the word and not ^bhearers only, who ^cdelude themselves.

23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a ^adoer, this one is like a man considering in a ^bmirror the face he was born with;

24 For he considers himself and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he is.

25 But he who ¹looks into the ²perfect law, the ^alaw of ^bfreedom, and continues in it, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be ^cblessed in his doing.

26 If anyone thinks himself to be ¹religious and yet does ²not bridle his ^atongue but ^bdeceives his heart, this one’s ¹religion is vain.

27 This is pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father: to visit ^1aorphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself ²unspotted from the ³world.