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James Chapter 1
James 1:1 (NIV)
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings.
James 1:2 (NASB)
2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
James 1:3 (NASB)
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
James 1:4 (NASB)
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
James 1:5 (NASB)
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
James 1:6 (NASB)
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
James 1:7 (NIV)
7 That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord;
James 1:8 (NIV)
8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.
James 1:9 (NASB)
9 But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;
James 1:10 (AMP)
10 And the rich [person ought to glory] in being humbled [by being shown his human frailty], because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.
James 1:11 (AMP)
11 For the sun comes up with a scorching heat and parches the grass; its flower falls off and its beauty fades away. Even so will the rich man wither and die in the midst of his pursuits.
James 1:12 (NASB)
12 Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
James 1:13 (NASB)
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
James 1:14 (NASB)
14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.
James 1:15 (NASB)
15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
James 1:16 (NASB)
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
James 1:17 (NKJV)
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
James 1:18 (NASB)
18 In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
James 1:19 (NKJV)
19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
James 1:20 (NASB)
20 for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
James 1:21 (NKJV)
21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:22 (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 1:23 (NASB)
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
James 1:24 (NASB)
24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.
James 1:25 (AMP)
25 But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience).
James 1:26 (NIV)
26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.
James 1:27 (NASB)
27 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
James Chapter 2
James 2:1 (NIV)
1 My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don’t show favoritism.
James 2:2 (NIV)
2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.
James 2:3 (NIV)
3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,”
James 2:4 (NIV)
4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
James 2:5 (NASB)
5 Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?
James 2:6 (NIV)
6 But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?
James 2:7 (NASB)
7 Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?
James 2:8 (NKJV)
8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well;
James 2:9 (NASB)
9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
James 2:10 (NIV)
10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
James 2:11 (NIV)
11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
James 2:12 (AMP)
12 So speak and so act as [people should] who are to be judged under the law of liberty [the moral instruction given by Christ, especially about love].
James 2:13 (NKJV)
13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 2:14 (NKJV)
14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
James 2:15 (NASB)
15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food,
James 2:16 (NIV)
16 If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?
James 2:17 (NIV)
17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
James 2:18 (NASB)
18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”
James 2:19 (NIV)
19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that–and shudder.
James 2:20 (AMP)
20 Are you willing to be shown [proof], you foolish (unproductive, spiritually deficient) fellow, that faith apart from [good] works is inactive and ineffective and worthless?
James 2:21 (NIV)
21 Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
James 2:22 (NIV)
22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.
James 2:23 (NKJV)
23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.
James 2:24 (CJB)
24 You see that a person is declared righteous because of actions and not because of faith alone.
James 2:25 (NIV)
25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?
James 2:26 (CJB)
26 Indeed, just as the body without a spirit is dead, so too faith without actions is dead.
James Chapter 3
James 3:1 (NIV)
1 Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
James 3:2 (NIV2011)
2 We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.
James 3:3 (NASB)
3 Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well.
James 3:4 (NKJV)
4 Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.
James 3:5 (NASB)
5 So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!
James 3:6 (NIV)
6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
James 3:7 (NKJV)
7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
James 3:8 (AMP)
8 But the human tongue can be tamed by no man. It is a restless (undisciplined, irreconcilable) evil, full of deadly poison.
James 3:9 (NIV)
9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
James 3:10 (NIV)
10 Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.
James 3:11 (NIV)
11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
James 3:12 (NIV)
12 My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
James 3:13 (CJB)
13 Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him demonstrate it by his good way of life, by actions done in the humility that grows out of wisdom.
James 3:14 (NASB)
14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
James 3:15 (NIV2011)
15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
James 3:16 (NASB)
16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.
James 3:17 (NKJV)
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
James 3:18 (NIV)
18 Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.
James Chapter 4
James 4:1 (AMP)
1 What leads to strife (discord and feuds) and how do conflicts (quarrels and fightings) originate among you? Do they not arise from your sensual desires that are ever warring in your bodily members?
James 4:2 (NASB)
2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.
James 4:3 (NASB)
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
James 4:4 (NASB)
4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:5 (7KB)
The scriptures states emphatically that the Spirit of God who dwells within us burns with jealousy when his people engage in idolatry with the world.
James 4:6 (NIV)
6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:7 (NASB)-M
7 Humble yourselves before God in submission. Resist the devil (stand firm against him) and he must flee from you.
James 4:8 (NASB)
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:9 (AMP)
9 [As you draw near to God] be deeply penitent and grieve, even weep [over your disloyalty]. Let your laughter be turned to grief and your mirth to dejection and heartfelt shame [for your sins].
James 4:10 (NKJV)
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
James 4:11 (NASB)
11 Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.
James 4:12 (NASB)
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor?
James 4:13 (NASB)
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
James 4:14 (NIV)
14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
James 4:15 (NIV)
15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:16 (AMP)
16 But as it is, you boast [falsely] in your presumption and your self-conceit. All such boasting is wrong.
James 4:17 (AMP)
17 So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.
James Chapter 5
James 5:1 (AMP)
1 Come now, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries (the woes) that are surely coming upon you.
James 5:2 (AMP)
2 Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined, and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten.
James 5:3 (AMP)
3 Your gold and silver are completely rusted through, and their rust will be testimony against you and it will devour your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped together treasure for the last days.
James 5:4 (AMP)
4 [But] look! [Here are] the wages that you have withheld by fraud from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out [for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.
James 5:5 (NASB)
5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and led a life of wanton pleasure; you have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
James 5:6 (AMP)
6 You have condemned and have murdered the righteous (innocent man), [while] he offers no resistance to you.
James 5:7 (AMP)
7 So be patient, brethren, [as you wait] till the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits expectantly for the precious harvest from the land. [See how] he keeps up his patient [vigil] over it until it receives the early and late rains.
James 5:8 (NASB)
8 You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
James 5:9 (AMP)
9 Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you [yourselves] may not be judged. Look! The Judge is [already] standing at the very door.
James 5:10 (NASB)
10 As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
James 5:11 (NASB)
11 We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.
James 5:12 (NASB)
12 But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment.
James 5:13 (NIV)
13 Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise.
James 5:14 (NASB)
14 Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
James 5:15 (NKJV)
15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
James 5:16 (NASB)
16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.
James 5:17 (NASB)
17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
James 5:18 (NASB)
18 Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.
James 5:19 (AMP)
19 [My] brethren, if anyone among you strays from the Truth and falls into error and another [person] brings him back [to God],
James 5:20 (NASB)
20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.