Category James

In a letter in which James does not hold back, he saves his strongest language for the rich who have lived ungodly lives. People who have rejected God and made wealth their god. In verse 1, James isn’t really writing…

In verse 13-17, James gives us a scenario of a person making plans for the next year. And this person decides to find a town or city in which they will spend a year selling and trading merchandise or goods…

Verse 11Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of…

Verse 5Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? Typically, when we think about the word jealous or jealousy it is viewed…

Verse 1What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? James begins chapter 4 with a rhetorical question that he then answers. And he quickly answers it because he…

Verses 7-8 In verse 8, James says that no one can tame the tongue. Now this feels like an extreme and even hopeless statement from James. And even inconsistent to what James has previous said. In James 1:26, he tells…

Verse 1 In these first two chapters of James, the author James will often throw out the phrase, my brothers or beloved brothers when he is challenging them in a particular area. James 1:16 he writes, “Do not be deceived,…

In verse 20, James gets very direct and says, “Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?” James is saying: “Do you have to be shown (do I have to take your…

James knows that there will be people who say, you can’t judge my faith just because I don’t have outward works. Maybe not everyone’s relationship is outward. Someone might say: Maybe for someone their relationship with God does leads to…

James writes, “if someone says, “I have faith in Christ and yet their life does not show any evidence of the works of Christ.” James then writes in verse 14: What good is that faith? Anyone can say I have…