James 2:20

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

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

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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

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.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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

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

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

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

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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

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

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

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

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

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

And 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 by Gehenna.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

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

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

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

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.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

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

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Without 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.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

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

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.

from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

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.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,