Yehovah's Modern English Scriptures

Yehovah’s Modern English Scriptures

JAMES  with Strong’s numbers

The Letter of JAMES the Apostle

Index & Forward

1 JAMES, a servant of God, and of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah; to the twelve tribes dispersed among the Nations; greeting peace. 2 Let it be all joy to you, my brethren, when you enter into many and various trials. 3 For you know, that the trial of your faith, makes you possess patience. 4 Let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be complete and perfect, and may lack nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask it of God, who gives to all freely, and reproaches not; and it will be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, not hesitating; he who hesitates is like the waves of the sea, which the wind agitates. 7 Dont let that man expect to receive any thing of the Lord, 8 who is hesitating in his mind, and unstable in all his ways. 9 Let the depressed brother rejoice, in his elevation; 10 and the rich, in his depression; because, like the flower of an herb, so he passes away. 11 For the sun rises in its heat, and dries up the herb; and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also the rich man withers in his ways. 12 Blessed is the man who endures temptations; so that when he is proved he will receive a crown of life that Yehovah has promised to them that love him. 13 Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted of God: for Yehovah is not tempted with evils, nor does he tempt any man. 14 But every man is tempted by his own lust; and he lusts, and is drawn away. 15 This his lust conceives, and brings forth sin; and sin, when mature, brings forth death. 16 dont err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good and perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no mutation, not even the shadow of change. 18 He saw fit, and fathered us by the word of truth; that we might be the firstfruits of his creatures. 19 Be you, my beloved brethren, every one of you, swift to hear, and slow to speak; and slow to wrath: 20 for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God. 21 so, remove far from you all impurity, and the abundance of wickedness; and, with meekness, receive the word that is implanted in our nature, which is able to endow with life these your souls. 22 But you be doers of the word, and not hearers only; and dont deceive yourselves. 23 For if any man will be a hearter of the word, and not a doer of it, he will be like one who sees his face in a mirror: 24 for he sees himself, and passes on, and forgets what a man he was. 25 But everyone who looks on the perfect Law of liberty and abides in it, is not a hearerof something to be forgotten, but a doer of the things; and he will be blessed in his work. 26 If any one thinks that he worships God, and doesnt restrain his tongue, but his heart deceives him; his worship is vain. 27 For the worship that is pure and holy before Yehovah the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world.

2 Brethren, dont hold the faith of the glory of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, with a respect to persons. 2 For if there come into your assembly a man with rings of gold or splendid garments, and there come in a poor man in sordid garments; 3 and you show respect to him who is clothed in splendid garments, and say to him, Seat yourself here, conspicuously; while to the poor man, you say, Stand you there, or sit you here before my footstool; 4 are you not divided among yourselves, and become expositors of evil thoughts? 5 Hear, my beloved brethren; hasnt Yehovah chosen the poor of the world, but the rich in faith, to be heirs in the kingdom that Yehovah has promised to those who love Him? 6 But you have despised the poor man. Dont rich men exalt themselves over you, and drag you before the tribunals? 7 Dont they revile that worthy name that is invoked on you? 8 If in this you fulfill the Law of Yehovah, as it is written, you’ll love your neighbor as yourself, you’ll do well: 9 but if you have respect of persons, you commit sin; and you are convicted by the Law, as transgressors of the Law. 10 For he who keeps the whole Law, yet fails in one precept, is obnoxious to the whole Law. 11 For he who said, you’ll not commit adultery, also said, you’ll not kill. So if you dont commit adultery, but you murder, you have become a transgressor of the Law. 12 So speak and act as people who are to be judged by the Law of liberty. 13 For judgment without mercy will be on him, who has practiced no mercy: by mercy, you’ll be raised above judgment. 14 What is the use, my brethren, if a man say, I have faith; and he has no works? can his faith endow with life him? 15 Or if a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you say to them, Go in peace, warm yourselves, and be full; and you give them not the necessaries of the body, what is the use? 17 So also faith alone, without works, is dead. 18 For a man may say, you have faith, and I have works; show to me your faith that is without works; and I will show to you, my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God; you do well; the demons also believe, and tremble. 20 Would you know, O frail man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Wasnt Abraham our father justified by works in offering his son Isaac on the altar? 22 Dont you see that his faithfulness* aided his works; and that by works his faithfulness was made complete? 23 The Scripture was fulfilled, which says: “Abraham *entrusted his fidelity* [4100] to Yehovah, and by this it was determined* [3049] that he was righteous, and he was called the Friend of Yehovah”. 24 You see, that by works a man is *declaired to be righteous* [1344], and not by faithfulness* alone. 25 So also Rahab, the harlot, was not she justified by works, when she entertained the spies, and sent them forth by another way? 26 As the body without the spirit, is dead; so faith without works, is dead also.

3 Let there not be many teachers among you, my brethren; but know you, that we are obnoxious to, a severer judgment. 2 For we all offend in many things. Whoever offends not in discourse, is a perfect man, who can also keep his whole body in subjection. 3 Look, we put bridles into the mouth of horses, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Huge ships also, when strong winds drive them, are turned about by a small timber, to what place the pleasure of the pilot looks. 5 So likewise the tongue is a small member, and it exhalts itself. Also a little fire inflames large forests. 6 Now the tongue is a fire, and the world of sin is like a forest. And this tongue, which is one among our members, mars our whole body; and it inflames the series of our generations that roll on like a wheel; and it is itself on fire. 7 For all natures of beasts and birds and reptiles, of the sea or land, are subjugated by the nature of man. 8 But the tongue has no one been able to tame: it is an evil thing, not coercible, and full of deadly poison. 9 For with it, we bless the Lord and Father; and with it we curse men, who were made in the image of God: 10 and from the same mouth, proceed curses and blessings. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. 11 Can there flow from the same fountain, sweet waters and bitter? 12 Or can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives? or the vine, figs? So also salt waters cant be made sweet. 13 Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show his works in praiseworthy actions, with modest wisdom. 14 But if bitter envy be in you, or contention in your hearts, exalt not yourselves against the truth, and lie not. 15 For this wisdom comes not down from above; but is earthly, and from the devices of the soul, and from demons. 16 For where envy and contention are, there also is confusion, and every thing wrong. 17 But the wisdom which is from above, is pure, and full of peace, and mild, and submissive, and full of compassion and of good fruits, and without partiality, and without respect of persons. 18 The fruits of righteousness are sown in *cultivated land*, by those who make peace.

4 From where is it, that there is among you fighting and broils? Is it not from the lusts, which war in your members? 2 You covet, and possess not; and you kill, and envy, and effect nothing: and you fight and make attacks; and you have not, because you ask not. 3 You ask, and receive not; because you ask wickedly, that you may pamper your lusts. 4 You adulterers, know you not, that the love of the world is hostility towards God? He so who chooses to be a lover of this world, is the enemy of God. 5 Or think you, that the scripture has vainly said: The spirit dwelling in us lusts with envy? 6 But our Lord has given us more grace. so he said: The Lord humbles the lofty, and gives grace to the lowly. 7 Subject yourselves so to God; and stand firm against Satan, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners: sanctify your hearts, you divided in mind. 9 Humble yourselves, and mourn: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into grief. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. 11 Speak not against each other, my brethren; for he who speaks against his brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the Law, and judges the Law. And if you judge the Law, you arent a doer of the Law, but its judge. 12 There is one Law-giver and Judge, who can make alive, and can destroy: but who is you,that you judge your neighbor? 13 But what will we say of those, who say: today or tomorrow we will go to such or such a city, and will abide there a year; and we will traffic, and get gain? 14 They know not what will be to-morrow: for what is our life, but an exhalation that is seen a little while, and then vanishes and is gone? 15 Whereas they should say: If the Lord please, and we live, we will do this or that. 16 They glory in their vaunting. All such glorying is evil. 17 He who knows the good, and does it not, to him is sin.

5 O you rich ones, wail and weep, on account of the miseries that are coming on you. 2 For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten: 3 and your gold and your silver have contracted rust; and the rust of them will be testimony against you; and it will eat your flesh. you have heaped up a fire to you against the latter days. 4 Look, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your ground, which you have wrongfully retained, cries out; and the clamor of the reapers has entered the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 For you have lived in pleasure on the earth, and revelled, and feasted your bodies as in a day of slaughter. 6 you have condemned and slain the just, and none resisted you. 7 But, my brethren, you be patient until the advent of the Lord; like the husbandman, who waits for the precious fruits of his ground, and is patient as to them, until he receive the early and the latter rain. 8 So also you be patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draws nigh. 9 Dont be querulous one against another, my brethren, for fear that you be judged: for see, the judgment, stands before the door. 10 For patience in your afflictions, my brethren, take the example of the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 For note, we ascribe blessedness to them who have borne suffering. You have heard of the patience of Job; and you have seen the result which the Lord done for him: for the Lord is merciful and compassionate. 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear you not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your language be yes, yes, and no, no, for fear that you become obnoxious to judgment. 13 If any of you’ll be in affliction, let him pray; or if he be joyous, let him sing psalms. 14 If one is sick, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray for him, and anoint him with oil in the name of our Lord: 15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and our Lord will raise him up; and if sins have been committed by him, they will be forgiven him. 16 Confess you your faults one to another, and pray you one for another, that you may be healed; for great is the efficacy of the prayer which a righteous man prays. 17 Elijah also was a man of sensations like us, and he prayed that rain might not descend on the earth; and it descended not, for three years and six months. 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth gave forth its fruits. 19 My brethren, if one of you err from the way of truth, and any one convert him from his error; 20 let him know, that he who turns the sinner from the error of his way, will resuscitate his soul from death, and will cover the multitude of his sins.