James 2:10

If 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.

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

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

and say to them, Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words of this covenant,

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

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

They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

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

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.

Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”

“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.

He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you today.

‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.

Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

They came in and possessed it, but they didn’t obey your voice and didn’t walk in your law. They have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do. Therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.