If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of allContinue reading “1 James 2: 8-13…The royal law.”
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James 2: 1-6….Whom should we honour?
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears theContinue reading “James 2: 1-6….Whom should we honour?”
James 1: 19-27….Look in a mirror, see and act.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. – listen well, remember anger can be very counter-productive! Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, whichContinue reading “James 1: 19-27….Look in a mirror, see and act.”
James 1: 9-18….Three situations common to all.
Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midstContinue reading “James 1: 9-18….Three situations common to all.”
James 1: 1-8….Where to find wisdom.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion:Greetings.Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lackingContinue reading “James 1: 1-8….Where to find wisdom.”
As I read it! 