James 1:13

1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, ¹  and he himself tempts no one.

James 1:19

Living Out the Message

1:19 Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! ²  Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

James 2:14

Faith and Works Together

2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, ³  if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith ⁴  save him? ⁵ 

James 3:2

3:2 For we all stumble ⁶  in many ways. If someone does not stumble ⁷  in what he says, ⁸  he is a perfect individual, ⁹  able to control the entire body as well.

James 5:11

5:11 Think of how we regard ¹⁰  as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and you have seen the Lord’s purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy. ¹¹ 

James 5:17

5:17 Elijah was a human being ¹²  like us, and he prayed earnestly ¹³  that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!

¹ tn Or “God must not be tested by evil people.”

² tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

³ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

⁴ tn Grk “the faith,” referring to the kind of faith just described: faith without works. The article here is anaphoric, referring to the previous mention of the noun πίστις (pisti") in the verse. See ExSyn 219.

⁵ sn The form of the question in Greek expects a negative answer.

⁴ tn Or “fail.”

⁵ tn Or “fail.”

⁶ tn Grk “in speech.”

⁷ tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” But it sometimes is used generically to mean “anyone,” “a person,” as here (cf. BDAG 79 s.v. 2).

⁵ tn Grk “Behold! We regard…”

⁶ sn An allusion to Exod 34:6; Neh 9:17; Ps 86:15; 102:13; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2.

⁶ tn Although it is certainly true that Elijah was a “man,” here ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") has been translated as “human being” because the emphasis in context is not on Elijah’s masculine gender, but on the common humanity he shared with the author and the readers.

⁷ tn Grk “he prayed with prayer” (using a Hebrew idiom to show intensity).