James 3:2

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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.

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.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

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.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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

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.

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

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

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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.”

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

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

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

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

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

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

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;

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

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

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.

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.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

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

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.

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

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

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.

The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

then the priest shall examine them. Behold, if the bright spots on the skin of their body are a dull white, it is a harmless rash. It has broken out in the skin. He is clean.

Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”

“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;

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

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

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

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

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,

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.