JAS from Forest Deal, edited by Tom Warren

60-JAS.usfm

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 \v 3 You know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
 
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-\v 4 Let endurance complete its work, so that you may become fully developed and complete, not lacking anything.
+\v 4 Let endurance complete its work so that you may become fully developed and complete, not lacking anything.
 \v 5 But if any of you needs wisdom, let him ask for it from God, the one who gives generously and without rebuke to all who ask, and he will give it to him.
 
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 \v 6 But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing. For anyone who doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven by the wind and tossed around.
-\v 7 For that person must not think that he will receive anything from the Lord,
+\v 7 For that person must not think that he will receive anything from the Lord;
 \v 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
 
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 \v 25 But the person who looks carefully into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so, not just being a hearer who forgets, this man will be blessed in his actions.
 
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-\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 worthless.
+\v 26 If anyone thinks he is religious and does control his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
 \v 27 Religion that is pure and unspoiled before our God and Father is to help the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
 
 
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 \v 24 You see that it is by works that a man is justified, and not only by faith.
 
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-\v 25 In the same way also, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she welcomed the messengers and sent them away by another road?
+\v 25 In the same way also, was not Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them away by another road?
 \v 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
 
 
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 \v 3 Your gold and your silver have become tarnished and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up your treasure for the last days.
 
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-\v 4 Look, the pay of the laborers is crying out—the pay that you have withheld from those who harvested your fields, and the cries of the harvesters have gone into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
+\v 4 Look, the wages you kept back from the workers who mowed your fields is crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
 \v 5 You have lived in luxury on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.
 \v 6 You have condemned and killed the righteous person. He does not resist you.
 
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-\v 7 So be patient, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See, the farmer awaits the valuable harvest from the ground. He is patiently waiting for it, until it receives the early and late rains.
-\v 8 You, too, be patient. Make your hearts strong, because the Lord's coming is near.
+\v 7 Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit from the ground and he is patient about it, until it receives the early and late rains.
+\v 8 You, too, be patient. Make your hearts strong because the Lord's coming is near.
 
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 \v 9 Do not complain, brothers, against one another, so that you will be not judged. See, the judge is standing at the door.
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 \v 15 The prayer of faith will heal the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, God will forgive him.
 
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-\v 16 So confess your sins to one another, and pray for each other, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very strong in its working.
+\v 16 So confess your sins to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very strong in its working.
 \v 17 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain in the land for three years and six months.
 \v 18 Then Elijah prayed again. The heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
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 \v 19 My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone brings him back,
-\v 20 that person should know that whoever turns a sinner from his wandering way will save him from death, and will cover over a great number of sins.
+\v 20 that person should know that whoever turns a sinner from his wandering way will save him from death and will cover over a great number of sins.