D1 Believers Should Know the Difference in Types of Wisdom James 3:13-16 D2 Believers Should Know the Definition of Godly Wisdom James 3:17-18 B4 Chapter 4 C1 The Christian life—placing ourselves under God’s authority James 4:1-12 D1 Believers Should Know the Origin of Personal Wars and Arguing James 4:1-3 D2 Believers Should Know Being…
C2 The Christian life—wisdom James 3:13-18 James 3:13-18 WEL Who is wise and understanding among you? By good behavior let him show his works with humility and wisdom. 14 If you have bitter envying and self-ambition in your heart, do not brag and lie against the truth. 15 This [kind of] wisdom does not…
C1 The Christian life—speech James 3:1-12 D1 Believers Should Know That Teachers are Going to be Judged More Strictly James 3:1-2 D2 Believers Should Know That Even If the Tongue Is Small What It Says Can be Troublesome James 3:3-6 D3 Believers Should Know That Wild Animals Have Been Tamed But Not Speech James…
C2 The Christian life—the relationship of faith and works James 2:14-26 D1 Believers Should Know That a Faith That Is Not Matched by Works is Fake James 2:14-17 James 2:14-17 WEL What does it profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith and not works? Can faith save him? 15 If a…
James 2:12-13 WEL So speak and act as those who will be judged under the law of liberty 13 For the judgment [is] without mercy to those who have shown no mercy, and [the law of liberty] exults mercy over judgment. Law of Liberty= See James 1:25 WEL But whoever looks at the perfect…
D3 Believers Should Know This Was Taught in the Old Testament James 2:8-11 James 2:8-11 WEL If, however, you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” You do well. 9 But if you are partial, you commit sin and are exposed by that law as being…
James 2:5-7 WEL Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn’t God chosen the poor of this world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? 6 But you, you despise the poor. Don’t rich people oppress you and drag you into the courts? 7 Don’t…
B2 Chapter 2 C1 The Christian life—no socioeconomic prejudice James 2:1-13 D1 Believers Should Treat All Christians Equally James 2:1-4 C1 The Christian life—no socioeconomic prejudice James 2:1-13 D1 Believers Should Treat All Christians Equally James 2:1-4 James 2:1-4 WEL My brothers, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the…
James 1:26-27 WEL If anyone among you seems to be religious and does not control his speech, he deceives his own heart. This man’s religion [is] useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God, even the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unblemished from…