James 1:16

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

“ ‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.

“ ‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon themselves.

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Blessed is a person 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.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Listen, 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?

My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found this written in it:

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

Let brotherly love continue.