The most popular Bible verses from James - Page 4

So be patient, brethren, [as you wait] till the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits expectantly for the precious harvest from the land. [See how] he keeps up his patient [vigil] over it until it receives the early and late rains. AMP

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. KJV

Who is there among you who is wise and intelligent? Then let him by his noble living show forth his [good] works with the [unobtrusive] humility [which is the proper attribute] of true wisdom. AMP

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. KJV

But every person is tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions). AMP

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. KJV

And it was of His own [free] will that He gave us birth [as sons] by [His] Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures [a sample of what He created to be consecrated to Himself]. AMP

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. KJV

For as the human body apart from the spirit is lifeless, so faith apart from [its] works of obedience is also dead. AMP

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. KJV

COME NOW, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries (the woes) that are surely coming upon you. AMP

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. KJV

Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and carry on our business and make money. AMP

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: KJV

Are you not discriminating among your own and becoming critics and judges with wrong motives? AMP

Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? KJV

So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls. AMP

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. KJV

You see that a man is justified (pronounced righteous before God) through what he does and not alone through faith [through works of obedience as well as by what he believes]. AMP

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. KJV