From 182e22667ab9d2a60444d5ff43fca63c43423ed5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pohlig Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 21:28:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update 01.usfm --- 60-JAS/01.usfm | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/60-JAS/01.usfm b/60-JAS/01.usfm index 2a5e1247..ae3b33b0 100644 --- a/60-JAS/01.usfm +++ b/60-JAS/01.usfm @@ -21,31 +21,31 @@ \s5 \v 12 Blessed is the man who endures testing. For after he has passed the test, he will receive the crown of life, which has been promised to those who love God. -\v 13 No one should say when he is tempted, "This temptation is from God," because God is not tempted by evil, and God himself does not tempt anyone. +\v 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," because God is not tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone. \s5 -\v 14 Each person is tempted by his own evil desires which entice and drag him away. -\v 15 Then after sinful desires conceive, sin is born, and after sin is full grown it results in death. +\v 14 Each person is tempted by his own evil desires, which drag him away and entice him. +\v 15 Then after sinful desire conceives, it gives birth to sin. After sin is full grown, it gives birth to death. \v 16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. \s5 -\v 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights. He never changes like shifting shadows. -\v 18 God chose to give us life by the word of truth, so that we would be like firstfruits among his creatures. +\v 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights. With him there is no changing or shadow from turning. +\v 18 God chose to give us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be some kind of firstfruit of all things that he created. \s5 -\v 19 You know this, my beloved brothers. Every man must be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, -\v 20 for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God. -\v 21 Therefore put away all sinful filth and the evil that is everywhere, and in humility receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. +\v 19 You know this, my beloved brothers: let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger. +\v 20 For the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God. +\v 21 Therefore put away all sinful filth and the abundance of evil. In humility receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. \s5 -\v 22 Obey the word, do not only hear it, deceiving your own selves. -\v 23 For if anyone hears the word and does not do it, he is like a man examining his natural face in a mirror. -\v 24 He examines his face, and goes away and soon forgets what he looked like. -\v 25 But the person who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and continues obeying it, not just being a hearer who forgets, this man will be blessed as he does it. +\v 22 Be doers of the word and not only hearers, deceiving yourselves. +\v 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word but not a doer, he is like a man who examines his natural face in a mirror. +\v 24 He examines himself and then goes away and soon forgets what he was like. +\v 25 But the person who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and remains so, not just being a hearer who forgets, this man will be blessed in his doing it. \s5 -\v 26 If anyone thinks himself to be religious, but he does not control his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is vain. -\v 27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to help the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to protect oneself from the world's corruption. +\v 26 If anyone thinks himself to be religious, but if he does not control his tongue, he deceives his heart, and his religion is vain. +\v 27 Clean and spotless religion before our God and Father is this: to help the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself spotless from the world.