Yakobus 1:18

1:18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth ¹  through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

Yakobus 1:23

1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone ²  who gazes at his own face ³  in a mirror.

Yakobus 3:1

The Power of the Tongue

3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, ⁴  because you know that we will be judged more strictly. ⁵ 

Yakobus 4:3

4:3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

[1:18]  ¹ tn Grk “Having willed, he gave us birth.”

[1:23]  ² tn The word for “man” or “individual” 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.”

[1:23]  ³ tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”

[3:1]  ⁴ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2.

[3:1]  ⁵ tn Grk “will receive a greater judgment.”