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James · read by E.A. Johnston
28 verses, in order. Only the verses E.A. read aloud are shown.
James 1
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But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.Read from KJV · Obtained Promises Through Faith and Prayer
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My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,Read from KJV · A Neck Up Religion Won'T Cut the Mustard on Judgment Day
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for man's anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.Read from KJV · A Neck Up Religion Won'T Cut the Mustard on Judgment Day
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Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.Read from ESV · Bible Survey Hebrews
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For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror,Read from KJV · A Neck Up Religion Won'T Cut the Mustard on Judgment Day
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But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.Read from KJV · A Neck Up Religion Won'T Cut the Mustard on Judgment Day
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If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.Read from KJV · A Neck Up Religion Won'T Cut the Mustard on Judgment Day
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Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.Read from KJV · A Neck Up Religion Won'T Cut the Mustard on Judgment Day
James 2
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Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.Read from KJV · The Smoke and Fire
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For He who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.Read from KJV · The Smoke and Fire
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What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?Read from KJV · A Neck Up Religion Won'T Cut the Mustard on Judgment Day
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Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.Read from KJV · Standing on Our Heads
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If one of you tells him, "Go in peace; stay warm and well fed," but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?Read from KJV · Standing on Our Heads
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So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.Read from KJV · A Neck Up Religion Won'T Cut the Mustard on Judgment Day
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But someone will say, "You have faith and I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.Read from KJV · A Neck Up Religion Won'T Cut the Mustard on Judgment Day
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You believe that God is one. Good for you! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.Read from KJV · Same Rebel You'Ve Always Been
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As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.Read from NKJV · A Neck Up Religion Won'T Cut the Mustard on Judgment Day
James 3
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The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.Read from KJV · The Sin of Profanity
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All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,Read from KJV · The Sin of Profanity
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but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.Read from KJV · The Sin of Profanity
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With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness.Read from KJV · The Sin of Profanity
James 4
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And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.Read from KJV · Suing God in Prayer
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You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.Read from KJV · Suing God in Prayer
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You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.Read from KJV · Boast Not of Tomorrow You May Die Today
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Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that."Read from KJV · Boast Not of Tomorrow You May Die Today
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Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.Read from KJV · The Good We Did Not
James 5
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Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.Read from KJV · The Hidden Life of Prayer
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Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.Read from KJV · Pounding on Heaven's Gate