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James 1:26 (NIV)

Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.

James 1:27 (NIV)

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

James 2:1 (NIV)

My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism.

James 3:1 (NIV)

Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

James 4:1 (NIV)

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?

James 5:1 (NIV)

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.

James 4:7 (NIV)

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:8 (NIV)

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James 5:16 (NIV)

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

James 2:2 (NIV)

Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.

James 2:3 (NIV)

If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,”

James 2:4 (NIV)

have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

James 2:5 (NIV)

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?

James 2:6 (NIV)

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?

James 2:7 (NIV)

Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?

James 2:8 (NIV)

If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right.

James 2:9 (NIV)

But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.

James 2:10 (NIV)

For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

James 2:11 (NIV)

For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.

James 2:12 (NIV)

Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,

James 2:13 (NIV)

because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

James 2:14 (NIV)

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them?

James 2:15 (NIV)

Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.

James 2:16 (NIV)

If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?

James 2:17 (NIV)

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.