James 1:26

1:26 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

James 1:22

1:22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

James 1:24

1:24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets ¹  what sort of person he was.

James 2:4

2:4 If so, have you not made distinctions ²  among yourselves and become judges with evil motives? ³ 

James 2:17

2:17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.

James 1:27

1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before ⁴  God the Father ⁵  is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

[1:24]  ¹ tn Grk “and he has gone out and immediately has forgotten.”

[2:4]  ¹ tn Grk “have you not made distinctions” (as the conclusion to the series of “if” clauses in vv. 2-3).

[2:4]  ² tn Grk “judges of evil reasonings.”

[1:27]  ¹ tn Or “in the sight of”; Grk “with.”

[1:27]  ² tn Grk “the God and Father.”