10:8Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),10:9then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,10:10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.10:11Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,10:12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;10:13from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.10:14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.10:15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
then he says,
10:18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.10:19Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,10:20by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;10:21and having a great priest over the house of God,10:22let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,10:23let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
10:24Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,10:25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.10:26For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,10:27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.10:28A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.10:29How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?10:30For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay."*Again, "The Lord will judge his people."*10:31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.10:32But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;10:33partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.10:34For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.10:35Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.10:36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
11:1Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.11:2For by this, the elders obtained testimony.11:3By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.11:4By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.11:5By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.11:6Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.11:7By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.11:8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.11:9By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.11:10For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.11:11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.11:12Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen*them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.11:14For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.11:15If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
11:17By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;11:18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"*11:19concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.11:20By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.11:21By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.11:22By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.11:23By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.11:24By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,11:25choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;11:26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.11:27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.11:28By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.11:29By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.11:30By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.11:31By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.11:32What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;11:33who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,*11:34quenched the power of fire,*escaped the edge of the sword,*from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.11:35Women received their dead by resurrection.*Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.11:37They were stoned.*They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword.*They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated11:38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.11:39These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,11:40God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.12:3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don't grow weary, fainting in your souls.12:4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;12:5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children,
12:7It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?12:8But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.12:9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?12:10For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.12:11All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.12:12Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,*12:13and make straight paths for your feet,*so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,12:15looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;12:16lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.12:17For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.12:18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,12:19the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them,12:20for they could not stand that which was commanded, "If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned*;"*12:21and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling."*
12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,12:23to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,12:24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant,*and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
12:25See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,12:26whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."*12:27This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.12:28Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,12:29for our God is a consuming fire.*
13:1Let brotherly love continue.13:2Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.13:3Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."*13:6So that with good courage we say,
13:7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.13:8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.13:9Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
13:10We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.13:11For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.*13:12Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.13:13Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.13:14For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.13:15Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God*continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.13:16But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
13:17Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
13:18Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.13:19I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
13:22But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.13:23Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.13:24Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.13:25Grace be with you all. Amen.
Notes:
[1]back to 1:5Psalm 2:7
[2]back to 1:52 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13
[3]back to 1:7Psalm 104:4
[4]back to 1:9Psalm 45:6-7
[5]back to 1:12Psalm 102:25-27
[6]back to 1:13Psalm 110:1
[7]back to 2:7TR adds "and set him over the works of your hands"
[8]back to 2:8Psalm 8:4-6
[9]back to 2:11The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
[10]back to 2:12Psalm 22:22
[11]back to 2:13Isaiah 8:17
[12]back to 2:13Isaiah 8:18
[13]back to 3:11Psalm 95:7-11
[14]back to 3:15Psalm 95:7-8
[15]back to 4:3Psalm 95:11
[16]back to 4:4Genesis 2:2
[17]back to 4:5Psalm 95:11
[18]back to 4:7Psalm 95:7-8
[19]back to 5:5Psalm 2:7
[20]back to 5:6Psalm 110:4
[21]back to 6:14Genesis 22:17
[22]back to 7:17Psalm 110:4
[23]back to 7:21Psalm 110:4
[24]back to 8:5Exodus 25:40
[25]back to 8:11TR reads "neighbor" instead of "fellow citizen"
[26]back to 8:12Jeremiah 31:31-34
[27]back to 9:1TR adds "tabernacle"
[28]back to 9:20Exodus 24:8
[29]back to 10:7Psalm 40:6-8
[30]back to 10:16Jeremiah 31:33
[31]back to 10:17Jeremiah 31:34
[32]back to 10:30Deuteronomy 32:35
[33]back to 10:30Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14
[34]back to 10:38Habakkuk 2:3-4
[35]back to 11:13TR adds "and being convinced of"
[36]back to 11:18Genesis 21:12
[37]back to 11:33Daniel 6:22-23
[38]back to 11:34Daniel 3:1-30
[39]back to 11:341 Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31-7:20
[40]back to 11:351 Kings 19:1-3; 2 Kings 6:31-7:20
[41]back to 11:372 Chronicles 24:20-21
[42]back to 11:37Jeremiah 26:20-23; 1 Kings 19:10
[43]back to 12:6Proverbs 3:11-12
[44]back to 12:12Isaiah 35:3
[45]back to 12:13Proverbs 4:26
[46]back to 12:20TR adds "or shot with an arrow" [see Exodus 19:12-13]
[47]back to 12:20Exodus 19:12-13
[48]back to 12:21Deuteronomy 9:19
[49]back to 12:24Jeremiah 31:31
[50]back to 12:26Haggai 2:6
[51]back to 12:29Deuteronomy 4:24
[52]back to 13:5Deuteronomy 31:6
[53]back to 13:6Psalm 118:6-7
[54]back to 13:11Leviticus 16:27
[55]back to 13:15Psalm 50:23
1:1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.1:2Count it all joy, mybrothers, when you fall into various temptations,1:3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.1:4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.1:5But 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.1:6But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.1:7For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
1:9But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;1:10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.1:11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
1:12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.1:13Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.1:14But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.1:15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.1:16Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.1:18Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
1:19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;1:20for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.1:21Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able tosave your souls.1:22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.1:23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;1:24for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
1:26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
2:1My brothers, don't hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.2:2For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into yoursynagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;2:3and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" and you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"2:4haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?2:6But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?2:7Don't they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?2:8However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself,"*you do well.2:9But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.2:10For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.2:11For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"*also said, "Do not commit murder."*Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.2:12So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
2:14What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?2:15And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,2:16and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?2:17Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.2:18Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
2:19You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.2:20But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?2:21Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?2:22You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;2:23and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;"*and he was called the friend of God.2:24You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.2:25In like manner wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?2:26For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
3:1Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.3:2For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn't stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.3:3Indeed, we put bits into the horses' mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.3:4Behold, the ships also, though they are so big and are driven by fierce winds, are yet guided by a very small rudder, wherever the pilot desires.3:5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!3:6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire byGehenna.3:7For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.3:8But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.3:9With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.3:10Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.3:11Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?3:12Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.3:14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.3:15This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.3:16For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.3:18Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
4:1Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?4:2You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.4:3You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.4:5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."*4:7Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.4:8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.4:9Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
4:11Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.4:12Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
4:13Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."4:14Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.4:15For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."4:16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.4:17To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
5:1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.5:2Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.5:3Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord ofArmies.5:5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.5:6You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
5:7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.5:8You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
5:9Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.5:10Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.5:12But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fallinto hypocrisy.
5:13Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.5:14Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,5:15and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.5:16Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.5:17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.5:18He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
5:19Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,5:20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
Notes:
[1]back to 1:2The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
[2]back to 1:21or, preserve your life.
[3]back to 2:2or, meeting
[4]back to 2:8Leviticus 19:18
[5]back to 2:11Exodus 20:14; Deuteronomy 5:18
[6]back to 2:11Exodus 10:13; Deuteronomy 5:17
[7]back to 2:23Genesis 15:16
[8]back to 3:6or, Hell
[9]back to 4:6Proverbs 3:34
[10]back to 5:4Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze'va'ot)
[11]back to 5:12TR reads "under judgment" instead of "into hypocrisy"