Companion summary Themes, outlines & translation notes Every chapter's theme and argument outline, the textual notes, and a table of the major exegetical cruxes.

1. 1 James 1 Α′ The maturing of faith under trial: trials worked into joy and endurance, wisdom sought from the single-minded Giver, and the implanted word received not as hearers only but as doers, in pure and undefiled religion. 27 verses · 406 words PDF
2. 2 James 2 Β′ Faith in the glorious Lord forbids partiality and proves itself in deeds: the royal law of love condemns favoritism (vv.1–13), and a faith that produces no works is dead and cannot save (vv.14–26). 26 verses · 416 words PDF
3. 3 James 3 Γ′ The taming of the tongue — that small member with fire's destructive power and the spring's double-mindedness — and, behind speech, the contrast between the bitter, earthbound "wisdom" of envy and the pure, peaceable wisdom that comes down from above. 18 verses · 295 words PDF
4. 4 James 4 Δ′ James traces the community's quarrels to the warring passions within and to friendship with the world — adultery against God — and answers them with a tenfold call to humble repentance, a ban on slandering and judging the brother, and a rebuke of the merchant's presumptuous boast about tomorrow. 17 verses · 277 words PDF
5. 5 James 5 Ε′ A prophetic woe against the oppressing rich gives way to the consolation of the oppressed: be patient until the Lord's coming, pray in every circumstance, and turn back the one who wanders — closing the letter on the saving of a soul from death. 20 verses · 348 words PDF