James 5:13

Prayer for the Sick

5:13 Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone in good spirits? He should sing praises.

James 5:19

5:19 My brothers and sisters, ¹  if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

James 1:7

1:7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

James 1:18

1:18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth ²  through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

James 1:5

1:5 But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.

James 1:23

1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone ³  who gazes at his own face ⁴  in a mirror.

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 2:14

Faith and Works Together

2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, ⁵  if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith ⁶  save him? ⁷ 

James 3:2

3:2 For we all stumble ⁸  in many ways. If someone does not stumble ⁹  in what he says, ¹⁰  he is a perfect individual, ¹¹  able to control the entire body as well.

James 5:14

5:14 Is anyone among you ill? He should summon the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint ¹²  him with oil in the name of the Lord.

James 2:16

2:16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, ¹³  what good is it?

James 2:18

2:18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” ¹⁴  Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by ¹⁵  my works.

James 5:12

5:12 And above all, my brothers and sisters, ¹⁶  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.

[5:19]  ¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[1:18]  ¹ tn Grk “Having willed, he gave us birth.”

[1:23]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”

[2:14]  ¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[2:14]  ² 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.

[2:14]  ³ sn The form of the question in Greek expects a negative answer.

[3:2]  ¹ tn Or “fail.”

[3:2]  ² tn Or “fail.”

[3:2]  ³ tn Grk “in speech.”

[3:2]  ⁴ 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).

[5:14]  ¹ tn Grk “anointing.”

[2:16]  ¹ tn Grk “what is necessary for the body.”

[2:18]  ¹ tn There is considerable doubt about where the words of the “someone” end and where James’ reply begins. Some see the quotation running to the end of v. 18; others to the end of v. 19. But most punctuate as shown above. The “someone” is then an objector, and the sense of his words is something like, “Some have faith; others have works; don’t expect everyone to have both.” James’ reply is that faith cannot exist or be seen without works.

[2:18]  ² tn Or “from.”

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