James 2:24

Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.

“I have trodden the wine press alone. Of the peoples, no one was with me. Yes, I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

Through God, we will do valiantly. For it is he who will tread down our enemies.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

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

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off.’ So they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let’s go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said.”

I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.

Yahweh was with Judah, and drove out the inhabitants of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”

Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”

So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

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

“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”

the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

“He said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

not of works, that no one would boast.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

Through God we will do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;