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James 2:26 (NIV)

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

James 1:14 (NIV)

but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.

James 3:14 (NIV)

But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.

James 4:14 (NIV)

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

James 5:14 (NIV)

Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.

James 1:2 (NIV)

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

James 3:2 (NIV)

We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.

James 4:2 (NIV)

You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

James 5:2 (NIV)

Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.

2 Samuel 14:1 (NIV)

Joab son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.

So Joab sent someone to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there. He said to her, “Pretend you are in mourning. Dress in mourning clothes, and don’t use any cosmetic lotions. Act like a woman who has spent many days grieving for the dead.

2 Samuel 14:3 (NIV)

Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.

2 Samuel 14:4 (NIV)

When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell with her face to the ground to pay him honor, and she said, “Help me, Your Majesty!”

2 Samuel 14:5 (NIV)

The king asked her, “What is troubling you?” She said, “I am a widow; my husband is dead.

2 Samuel 14:6 (NIV)

I your servant had two sons. They got into a fight with each other in the field, and no one was there to separate them. One struck the other and killed him.

2 Samuel 14:7 (NIV)

Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant; they say, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother down, so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed; then we will get rid of the heir as well.’ They would put out the only burning coal I have left, leaving my husband neither name nor descendant on the face of the earth.”

2 Samuel 14:8 (NIV)

The king said to the woman, “Go home, and I will issue an order in your behalf.”

2 Samuel 14:9 (NIV)

But the woman from Tekoa said to him, “Let my lord the king pardon me and my family, and let the king and his throne be without guilt.”

2 Samuel 14:10 (NIV)

The king replied, “If anyone says anything to you, bring them to me, and they will not bother you again.”

2 Samuel 14:11 (NIV)

She said, “Then let the king invoke the Lord his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be destroyed.” “As surely as the Lord lives,” he said, “not one hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”