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Chapter 2, Verse 13 “For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.” Don’t you just love the way James gets down to where the rubber meets the road? No beating around the bush and no fancy language. Just the naked truth. Whose judgment…

Chapter 2, Verse 11-12 “For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.”…

Chapter 2, Verse 10 “For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.” Now this, dear friends, is not rocket science. This verse does not require a PhD in Theology to understand. It was true under Moses’ law and it true under…

Animals Many different animals appear in the pages of the Bible. These animals are sometimes used in their literal sense and sometimes they are used in a figurative or symbolic sense. Correct interpretation of many prophecies depends on understanding when they are used in a symbolic sense and why. For…

Chapter 2, Verse 9 “But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.” Failure to love others as ourselves (we understand this concept) is a sin. We do well when we love others, and we sin when we don’t. The law of God…

Chapter 2, Verse 8 “If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.” James makes an argument for love for all which excludes partiality. What is the royal law? Not the Old Testament Law from Moses. This…