James 2:4

2:4 If so, have you not made distinctions ¹  among yourselves and become judges with evil motives? ² 

James 5:12

5:12 And above all, my brothers and sisters, ³  do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let your “Yes” be yes and your “No” be no, so that you may not fall into judgment.

James 3:10

3:10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters. ⁴ 

James 4:3

4:3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

James 1:23

1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone ⁵  who gazes at his own face ⁶  in a mirror.

James 2:11

2:11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” ⁷  also said, “Do not murder.” ⁸  Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

James 3:2

3:2 For we all stumble ⁹  in many ways. If someone does not stumble ¹⁰  in what he says, ¹¹  he is a perfect individual, ¹²  able to control the entire body as well.

James 4:2

4:2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;

[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.”

[5:12]  ³ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[3:10]  ⁵ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[1:23]  ⁷ tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”

[1:23]  ⁸ tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”

[2:11]  ⁹ sn A quotation from Exod 20:14 and Deut 5:18.

[2:11]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Exod 20:13 and Deut 5:17.

[3:2]  ¹¹ tn Or “fail.”

[3:2]  ¹² tn Or “fail.”

[3:2]  ¹³ tn Grk “in speech.”

[3:2]  ¹⁴ 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).