James 3

Treated in 11 passages across the library.

American Standard Version

  1. He Holds My Tomorrows · Gareth Evans

    Controversy cites James 3:2

    …elievers who will quote the Scriptures as their grounds for ‘faith.’ For example, I heard James 3:2 being taught on my television just this past week. “The letter of James declares that if …

  2. Godliness · Catherine Booth

    Love and Rebuke cites James 3:17

    …peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” James 3:17 Notice that it is first pure, then peaceable . I would rather live in continual conflict …

  3. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Original, Nature, Property, and Use of the Law cites Jas. 3.17

    …sdom from above” (which is no other than this law, written in our heart) “is first pure” (Jas. 3.17;) agne, — chaste, spotless; eternally and essentially holy. And, consequently, when it is…

  4. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Christian Perfection cites Jas. 3:2

    …es not St. James directly contradict this? His words are, ‘In many things we offend all, (Jas. 3:2:) And is not offending the same as committing sin?” In this place, I allow it is: I allow…

  5. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    The Breaking of the Outer Man cites James 3:17

    …e as “pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits” (James 3:17, ASV). “Easy to be entreated” is an excellent test of spiritual maturity. Can we be persu…

  6. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    Walk: Christ Lived Through Us cites James 3:2

    …ny stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also” (James 3:2, ASV). The spiritual person is tested in speech. Nee's own forceful style influenced gene…

  7. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.3 The Third Commandment cites James 3: 8

    …th sin, as every branch of wormwood is bitter; ‘but the tongue is full of deadly poison.’ James 3: 8. There is no one member of the body breaks forth more in God’s dishonour than the tongue.…

  8. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    3.1 Man's Inability to keep the Moral Law cites James 3: 2

    …d, but does daily break them, in thought, word, and deed. ‘In many things we offend all.’ James 3: 2. Man in his primitive state of innocence, was endowed with ability to keep the whole mora…

  9. The Way Into the Holiest · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    The Ideal Life cites James iii. 18

    …pirit in the bond of peace (Eph. iv. 3). He will sow harvests of peace as he makes peace (James iii. 18). All his epistles, like those of the great Apostle, will breathe benedictions of peace; …

  10. Watchman Nee · Watchman Nee

    Appendix a: Twenty-Five Core Teachings of Watchman Nee cites James 3:17

    … to abuse. James says wisdom from above is “gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy” (James 3:17, ASV). A person who cannot be corrected may be gifted but remains hard. A leader who cann…

  11. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VIII. Truly gracious affections differ from those affections that are false and delusive, in that they tend to, and are attended with the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temper of Jesus Christ cites James 3:14-17

    …themselves, and lie against the truth, in professing to be Christians, when they are not, James 3:14-17: "If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not; and lie not against the…