James 5:16

5:16 So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness. ¹ 

James 4:12

4:12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge – the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor? ² 

James 1:3

1:3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

James 1:21

1:21 So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly ³  welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

James 1:4

1:4 And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.

James 2:17

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

James 5:6

5:6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you. ⁴ 

James 4:6

4:6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.” ⁵ 

James 3:6

3:6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents ⁶  the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It ⁷  pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence – and is set on fire by hell. ⁸ 

[5:16]  ¹ tn Or “the fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful”; Grk “is very powerful in its working.”

[4:12]  ² tn Grk “who judges your neighbor.”

[1:21]  ³ tn Or “with meekness.”

[5:6]  ⁴ tn Literally a series of verbs without connectives, “you have condemned, you have murdered…he does not resist.”

[4:6]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Prov 3:34.

[3:6]  ⁶ tn Grk “makes itself,” “is made.”

[3:6]  ⁷ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[3:6]  ⁸ sn The word translated hell is “Gehenna” (γέεννα, geenna), a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew words ge hinnom (“Valley of Hinnom”). This was the valley along the south side of Jerusalem. In OT times it was used for human sacrifices to the pagan god Molech (cf. Jer 7:31; 19:5-6; 32:35), and it came to be used as a place where human excrement and rubbish were disposed of and burned. In the intertestamental period, it came to be used symbolically as the place of divine punishment (cf. 1 En. 27:2, 90:26; 4 Ezra 7:36).