Yakobus 1:21

1:21 So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly ¹  welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

Yakobus 2:14

Faith and Works Together

2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, ²  if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith ³  save him? ⁴ 

Yakobus 4:12

4:12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge – the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor? ⁵ 

Yakobus 5:20

5:20 he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path ⁶  will save that person’s ⁷  soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

[1:21]  ¹ tn Or “with meekness.”

[2:14]  ² tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[2:14]  ³ tn Grk “the faith,” referring to the kind of faith just described: faith without works. The article here is anaphoric, referring to the previous mention of the noun πίστις (pisti") in the verse. See ExSyn 219.

[2:14]  ⁴ sn The form of the question in Greek expects a negative answer.

[4:12]  ⁵ tn Grk “who judges your neighbor.”

[5:20]  ⁶ tn Grk “from the error of his way” (using the same root as the verb “to wander, to err” in the first part of the verse).

[5:20]  ⁷ tn Grk “his soul”; the referent (the sinner mentioned at the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.