And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by…

For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well. Look at the ships also, though they are so great and are…

You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.                                                            …

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.                                                                                                                                                                                              James 2:17  Every now and then we run across passages of scripture that seem to rub up against each other in such a way as to create a dilemma….

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.                                                                                                                           James 2:12-13  This one statement should change everything in the way the church functions in a sinful culture. “Mercy…

 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.                                                                                                                             James 2:10  To believe that we are all equally in need of salvation because we have all equally transgressed the Law is biblical truth. Today’s passage could not be any…

My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism.                                                                                                                         James 2:1  It is not uncommon to run into people who “hold their faith…with an attitude of personal favoritism.” But exactly what does this mean? An attitude of favoritism…

If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless.                                                                                                                       James 1:26  Many of the themes in which James discusses connect to one another in that they are the standards by which believers in…

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was….

This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    James 1:19-20  If there is one thing that I am…