Yakobus 2:2

2:2 For if someone ¹  comes into your assembly ²  wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes,

Yakobus 2:21

2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

Yakobus 1:11

1:11 For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. ³  So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.

Yakobus 1:3

1:3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Yakobus 1:12

1:12 Happy is the one ⁴  who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God ⁵  promised to those who love him.

Yakobus 2:25

2:25 And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

Yakobus 5:17-18

5:17 Elijah was a human being ⁶  like us, and he prayed earnestly ⁷  that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months! 5:18 Then ⁸  he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

[2:2]  ¹ tn The word for “man” or “individual” here is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” But as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, “equivalent to τὶς someone.”

[2:2]  ² tn Grk “synagogue.” Usually συναγωγή refers to Jewish places of worship (e.g., Matt 4:23, Mark 1:21, Luke 4:15, John 6:59). The word can be used generally to refer to a place of assembly, and here it refers specifically to a Christian assembly (BDAG 963 s.v. 2.b.).

[1:11]  ³ tn Or “perishes,” “is destroyed.”

[1:12]  ⁴ tn The word for “man” or “individual” here is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”

[1:12]  ⁵ tc Most mss ([C] P 0246 Ï) read ὁ κύριος (Jo kurio", “the Lord”) here, while others have ὁ θεός (Jo qeo", “God”; 4 33^vid 323 945 1739 al). However, several important and early witnesses (̲³ א A B Ψ 81 co) have no explicit subject. In light of the scribal tendency toward clarification, and the fact that both κύριος and θεός are well represented, there can be no doubt that the original text had no explicit subject. The referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity, not because of textual basis.

[5:17]  ⁶ tn Although it is certainly true that Elijah was a “man,” here ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") has been translated as “human being” because the emphasis in context is not on Elijah’s masculine gender, but on the common humanity he shared with the author and the readers.

[5:17]  ⁷ tn Grk “he prayed with prayer” (using a Hebrew idiom to show intensity).

[5:18]  ⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events.