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Key Verses in James
Important passages from James, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version with its setting and meaning.
2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, 3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. Count it all joy when you meet trials
James tells believers to see trials as a testing of faith that produces endurance and maturity.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. If anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask God
In the setting of trials (1:2-4), James says God gives wisdom generously to anyone who asks in faith.
19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; 20for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God. Quick to listen, slow to speak
James urges believers to listen readily and be slow to speak and slow to anger, because human anger does not produce God's righteousness.
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself. Faith without works is dead
James argues that faith which does nothing for a brother or sister in need is not living faith.
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. Confess and pray for one another
In a passage about prayer for the sick, James urges believers to confess sins to one another and pray for one another.
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