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0:00 James 1. Trials, Wisdom, and Being Doers of the Word
3:50 James 2. Faith Without Works Is Dead
7:24 James 3. The Power of the Tongue and True Wisdom
10:07 James 4. Submitting to God and Resisting the Devil
12:45 James 5. Patience in Suffering and the Power of Prayer
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The Epistle of James, commonly known as James, is the twentieth book of the New Testament and one of the most practical and wisdom-filled letters in the Bible. Written by James, the brother of Jesus, who became a leader in the Jerusalem church, it was likely composed between AD 45–50, making it one of the earliest New Testament writings. Addressed to Jewish Christians scattered throughout the Roman world, James encourages believers to live out their faith with genuine devotion, wisdom, and good works.
James begins the letter by addressing trials and perseverance, teaching that trials test faith and produce endurance, leading to spiritual maturity. He urges believers to ask God for wisdom, as He gives generously to those who seek Him. However, he warns against doubt and double-mindedness, encouraging them to remain steadfast in faith despite hardships.
One of the key themes in James is the relationship between faith and works. James famously states that faith without works is dead, emphasizing that true faith is demonstrated by action. While salvation is by grace through faith, James argues that genuine faith naturally produces good works, such as caring for the poor, controlling one’s speech, and living righteously. He challenges believers to not merely listen to the Word but to be doers of the Word, applying God’s truth to daily life.
James also warns against favoritism, rebuking believers who show partiality to the rich while neglecting the poor. He stresses that true religion is caring for widows and orphans and keeping oneself unstained by the world, showing that God values humility and love over wealth and status.
A major focus of the letter is the power of the tongue. James warns that the tongue is like a small fire that can set a great forest ablaze, emphasizing that words have the power to bless or curse, build up or destroy. He encourages believers to tame their speech, speak wisely, and avoid gossip and slander.
James also contrasts earthly wisdom with godly wisdom. Earthly wisdom is marked by selfish ambition, envy, and disorder, while godly wisdom is pure, peace-loving, gentle, and full of mercy. He calls believers to humility, submission to God, and resisting the devil, reminding them that God gives grace to the humble but opposes the proud.
Toward the end of the letter, James warns against wealth and self-reliance, cautioning those who place their trust in riches rather than God.
Audio Bible https://tienda.josepenacoto.com/products/the-bible-audiobook
📖 Chapters
0:00 James 1. Trials, Wisdom, and Being Doers of the Word
3:50 James 2. Faith Without Works Is Dead
7:24 James 3. The Power of the Tongue and True Wisdom
10:07 James 4. Submitting to God and Resisting the Devil
12:45 James 5. Patience in Suffering and the Power of Prayer
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9nL9AX7_1DODTGB18Hh_JCJr2s-l2KnL
The Epistle of James, commonly known as James, is the twentieth book of the New Testament and one of the most practical and wisdom-filled letters in the Bible. Written by James, the brother of Jesus, who became a leader in the Jerusalem church, it was likely composed between AD 45–50, making it one of the earliest New Testament writings. Addressed to Jewish Christians scattered throughout the Roman world, James encourages believers to live out their faith with genuine devotion, wisdom, and good works.
James begins the letter by addressing trials and perseverance, teaching that trials test faith and produce endurance, leading to spiritual maturity. He urges believers to ask God for wisdom, as He gives generously to those who seek Him. However, he warns against doubt and double-mindedness, encouraging them to remain steadfast in faith despite hardships.
One of the key themes in James is the relationship between faith and works. James famously states that faith without works is dead, emphasizing that true faith is demonstrated by action. While salvation is by grace through faith, James argues that genuine faith naturally produces good works, such as caring for the poor, controlling one’s speech, and living righteously. He challenges believers to not merely listen to the Word but to be doers of the Word, applying God’s truth to daily life.
James also warns against favoritism, rebuking believers who show partiality to the rich while neglecting the poor. He stresses that true religion is caring for widows and orphans and keeping oneself unstained by the world, showing that God values humility and love over wealth and status.
A major focus of the letter is the power of the tongue. James warns that the tongue is like a small fire that can set a great forest ablaze, emphasizing that words have the power to bless or curse, build up or destroy. He encourages believers to tame their speech, speak wisely, and avoid gossip and slander.
James also contrasts earthly wisdom with godly wisdom. Earthly wisdom is marked by selfish ambition, envy, and disorder, while godly wisdom is pure, peace-loving, gentle, and full of mercy. He calls believers to humility, submission to God, and resisting the devil, reminding them that God gives grace to the humble but opposes the proud.
Toward the end of the letter, James warns against wealth and self-reliance, cautioning those who place their trust in riches rather than God.
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00:00The General Epistle of James, Chapter 1
00:03James the servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are
00:10scattered abroad, greeting.
00:13My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations, knowing this, that
00:20the trying of your faith worketh patience.
00:23But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
00:31If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth
00:38not, and it shall be given him.
00:41But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering, for he that wavereth is like a wave of the
00:47sea, driven with the wind, and tossed.
00:51For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.
00:56A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
01:02Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted, but the rich in that he is made
01:09low, because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
01:14For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the
01:20flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth.
01:25So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
01:30Blessed is the man that endureth temptation.
01:32For when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them
01:40that love him.
01:41Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God.
01:45For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.
01:50But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed.
01:57Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth
02:05death.
02:06Do not err, my beloved brethren.
02:09Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of
02:16lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
02:21Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits
02:27of his creatures.
02:29Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
02:37For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
02:41Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the
02:48engrafted word which is able to save your souls.
02:52But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
02:59For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his
03:05natural face in a glass.
03:07For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man
03:14he was.
03:15But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful
03:22hearer but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
03:27If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his
03:33own heart, this man's religion is vain.
03:37Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and
03:44widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
03:49Chapter 2 My brethren, have not the faith of our
03:55Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
04:00For if there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there
04:06come in also a poor man in vile raiment, and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay
04:12clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place, and say to the poor, Stand thou
04:19there, or sit here under my footstool, are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become
04:26judges of evil thoughts?
04:28Hearken, my beloved brethren!
04:30Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which
04:36he hath promised to them that love him?
04:38But ye have despised the poor.
04:41Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
04:45Do not they blaspheme that worthy name, by the which ye are called?
04:52If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,
04:58ye do well.
04:59But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
05:06For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
05:13For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill.
05:19Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the
05:25law.
05:26So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
05:32For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath showed no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth
05:39against judgment.
05:40What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works?
05:48Can faith save him?
05:50If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them,
05:56Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled, notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful
06:03of the body, what doth it profit?
06:06Even so, faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
06:12Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works.
06:16Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.
06:23Thou believest that there is one God?
06:26Thou doest well.
06:27The devils also believe and tremble.
06:30But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
06:36Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the
06:42altar?
06:42Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
06:50And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto
06:56him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God.
07:01Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
07:07Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers,
07:14and had sent them out another way?
07:17For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
07:25Chapter 3
07:26My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
07:33For in many things we offend all.
07:36If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the
07:43whole body.
07:44Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us, and we turn about their
07:50whole body.
07:51Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet
07:57are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
08:02Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.
08:08Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth.
08:12And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.
08:16So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire
08:22the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.
08:26For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea is tamed,
08:32and hath been tamed of mankind.
08:35But the tongue can no man tame.
08:38It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
08:43Therewith bless we God, even the Father, and therewith curse we men which are made after
08:49the similitude of God.
08:52Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.
08:55My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
09:00Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
09:05Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries, either of vine figs?
09:11So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
09:16Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you?
09:20Let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
09:26But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against
09:32the truth.
09:34This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
09:40For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
09:47But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be
09:54entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
10:01And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
10:08Chapter 4
10:09From whence come wars and fightings among you?
10:13Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
10:19Ye lust and have not, ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain.
10:25Ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
10:30Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
10:37Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with
10:44God?
10:45Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
10:51Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, the spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
10:59But he giveth more grace.
11:01Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
11:07Submit yourselves therefore to God.
11:11Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
11:14Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
11:19Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.
11:24Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep.
11:28Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
11:33Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11:38Speak not evil one of another, brethren.
11:41He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law,
11:47and judgeth the law.
11:48But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
11:55There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy.
12:00Who art thou that judgest another?
12:03Go to now ye that say, Today or to-morrow, we will go into such a city,
12:08and continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain.
12:13Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow.
12:16For what is your life?
12:18It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
12:25For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that.
12:32But now ye rejoice in your boastings.
12:36All such rejoicing is evil.
12:38Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
12:44Chapter 5
12:47Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
12:55Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
12:59Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you,
13:05and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
13:08Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
13:13Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields.
13:17Witches of you kept back by fraud crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
13:27Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and have been wanton.
13:30Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
13:35Ye have condemned and killed the just, and he doth not resist you.
13:40Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
13:43Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth,
13:48and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
13:54Be ye also patient.
13:56Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
14:02Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned.
14:06Behold, the judge standeth before the door.
14:10Take, my brethren, the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord
14:13for an example of suffering affliction and of patience.
14:17Behold, we count them happy which endure.
14:21Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord,
14:25that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy.
14:30But above all things, my brethren, swear not,
14:33neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath.
14:39But let your yea be yea, and your nay nay, lest ye fall into condemnation.
14:45Is any among you afflicted?
14:47Let him pray.
14:49Is any merry?
14:50Let him sing psalms.
14:52Is any sick among you?
14:55Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him,
14:59anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
15:02And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.
15:08And if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
15:12Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.
15:20The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
15:25Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might
15:33not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
15:39And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
15:45Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know that he which
15:52converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall
15:58hide a multitude of sins.
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