James 2:1 My brethren [members of the royal family], stop holding on to loyalty in the sphere of personal favoritisms [over-zealous commitment towards friends] with reference to our Lord Jesus Christ, the honorable One [everyone else is sub-par].

James 2:2 For if [suppose] a gentleman [patrician] enters into your local assembly with a gold ring on his finger, in magnificent apparel [exquisite toga], and a working man [plebian] also enters in filthy [stinking] clothes,

James 2:3 And you extend preferential treatment to the one who wears magnificent apparel, and you say: “You, please sit in this honorable place,” but you say to the working man, “You, stand over there or sit beside my footstool,”

James 2:4 Have you not discriminated within yourselves [shown favoritism based on erroneous, external human standards instead of divine standards] and have you not become judges with corrupt decisions [evil opinions]?

James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen by Himself [election in eternity past] the poor of this world [within the family of God] to become [a potential, not a guarantee] wealthy in doctrine [requires continued positive volition] and heirs of the kingdom [a reward, not a gift] which He has promised to those who keep on loving Him [meeting the condition of this heirship]?

James 2:6 But you have dishonored [treated shamefully] the poor working man. Don’t wealthy men repeatedly exploit [dominate] you and drag you helplessly into courts of law?

James 2:7 Don’t they [wealthy Jews] keep on maligning that honorable name [Jesus Christ] by which you have been surnamed [Christians]?

James 2:8 If you truly continue to carry out a royal law [problem-solving device contained in the implanted Word] according to the Scripture: “You will continue to exercise impersonal love [relaxed mental attitude] towards the one in your periphery as yourself,” you keep on doing honorably [divine good].

James 2:9 But if you keep on showing favoritism [as a result of reverse process reversionism], you are committing a sin, being convicted by the authority of the law [implanted Word, law of freedom] as violators.

James 2:10 For anyone who tries to keep the entire [Mosaic] law, but stumbles on one [command of the law], he has become guilty of all [the law].

James 2:11 For He who said: “Do not commit adultery” also said: “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.

James 2:12 So keep on speaking [free from mental attitude and verbal sins] and in this manner keep on doing [divine good production] as those [Christians] who are destined to be evaluated [for rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ] by a law of freedom [not the Mosaic Law], 

James 2:13 For evaluation [at the Judgment Seat of Christ] will be without mercy [no reward for human good] for the one who did not produce mercy [grace orientation]; mercy will triumph during the time of evaluation [Judgment Seat of Christ].

James 2:14 What profit is it, my brethren, if someone [reversionistic believer] alleges that he has faith [without doctrine], but he does not keep on having production [either in the soul or by external application]? Is faith [without doctrine] able to deliver him?

James 2:15 If a [Christian] brother or sister exists shabbily dressed and lacking daily food,

James 2:16 And any one of you [in emotional revolt of the soul] says to them: “Go away in peace, warm yourselves and eat until you are satisfied,” but you don’t give them those necessities for the body, what profit is there [in your doctrinal misapplication]?

James 2:17 Even so, faith [after salvation], if it does not have doctrinal application [works], keeps on being dead by itself.

James 2:18 But now someone [a reversionist lipping-off] will say: You have faith [with doctrine] and I have works [without doctrine]. You begin to demonstrate to me your faith apart from works [doctrinal application] and I will demonstrate to you by means of my works [human good] my faith [without doctrine].

James 2:19 You [Judaizer] have faith that God is one [monotheism]; you do well [by believing in one God]. The demons also have faith [in one God], yet they tremble with fear [His existence guarantees their judgment in eternity].

James 2:20 But are you willing to start learning by studying [grace apparatus for perception], oh empty man [ignorant carnal believer], because faith apart from doctrinal application keeps on being unemployed [operational death]?

James 2:21 Abraham, our father, was he not vindicated by doctrinal application when he offered up Isaac his son upon the burnt offering altar?

James 2:22 Do you see that doctrine [in the mentality of the soul] kept on working together with his production [application] to make faith complete [producing divine good]?

James 2:23 And the scripture [Gen. 15:6] was brought to completion [experientially] which said: “And Abraham believed God [that his posterity would populate the earth] and it [his obedience in offering Isaac as a sacrifice] was reckoned to his account as righteousness [divine good] and he was called a friend of God [experiential fellowship with Deity].

James 2:24 You can see that by means of doctrinal application [works] a man receives vindication [sanctification salvation] and not by means of faith alone [faith by itself is useless, it must have a working object].

James 2:25 Likewise, also, was not Rahab the prostitute vindicated by doctrinal application [works], when she welcomed the envoys [spies] and led them out [helped them escape] in another direction [away from pursuing soldiers]?

James 3:1 Stop becoming many teachers [rebuke to the plurality of elders in a single assembly who were trying to usurp the authority of the pastor-teacher], my brethren, knowing that we [teachers] shall receive upon ourselves greater judgment [double discipline].

James 3:2 To be sure, we [teachers] all stumble from time-to-time. If any man does not occasionally stumble when teaching, this man is a spiritually mature man, able in fact [because of doctrine], to guide with a bit and bridle the whole body [control of the tongue while teaching is extended to control in other activities of life].

James 3:3 Now if we thrust the bits of horses into their mouths so that they will obey us [prevent verbal sins], we also control the direction of their entire body [prevent overt sins].

James 3:4 Consider ships [body of the teacher], also being large, and propelled by harsh winds: they are directed by a very small rudder [tongue] toward whatever direction the helmsman determines [appropriate spiritual destination].

James 3:5 In this manner also, the tongue is a small part [of the body], but it boasts great things [causes trouble]. Consider how such a small fire [verbal sins of a teacher] burns up such a large forest [destroys members of a congregation in its path].

James 3:6 Indeed, the tongue can be a fire, a world of wickedness. The tongue was placed in our anatomy although it may contaminate the entire body and may set on fire the course of existence [thinking-saying-doing] and may be set on fire by the agency of Gehenna [Satan himself].

James 3:7 For every species of mammal and also birds, reptiles and also marine life, has been controlled [tamed & subdued] in the past and is still being controlled by the natural order of mankind [instituted by God in Gen. 9:2],

James 3:8 But no one of mankind is able to tame the tongue, an unstable evil full of deadly poison [death bringing venom].

James 3:9 By means of it [the tongue] we praise the Lord, even the Father, and by means of it [the tongue] we curse mankind, who came into being according to the likeness of God;

James 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, there is no need for these things [alternating benediction and malediction] to continue coming to pass in this manner [inconsistency].

James 3:11 Does the well emit out of the same opening sweet water [blessings from supergrace] and bitter water [cursing from reversionism]?

James 3:12 My brethren, is a fig tree able to produce olives or a vine figs [there is an expected fruit according to its nature]? Neither is salty water [cursing from reversionism] able to produce sweet water [blessings from supergrace].

James 3:13 Who is wise and understanding [a doctrinal expert] among you? Demonstrate this production [application of doctrine] from an honorable manner of life in the sphere of grace orientation [genuine humility] of wisdom [spiritual insight].

James 3:14 But if you possess bitter jealousy and contentiousness in the mentality of your soul [reversionistic thoughts], stop boasting and lying against the truth [contradicting their profession of spiritual maturity by verbal sins].

James 3:15 This wisdom [demon doctrine] is not descending from above [heaven], but is of the earth, soulish [unspiritual], demonic;

James 3:16 For wherever jealousy and contentiousness exist [in the reversionist], there is instability [wide emotional swings] and every category of vile practice [monsterhood has been achieved]. 

James 3:17 But the wisdom [Bible doctrine in the soul] from above keeps on being essentially pure, and then, as well: peaceable [relaxed mental attitude], oriented to authority [teachable], reasonable [not implacable or vindictive], full of mercy [grace orientation] and good fruit [divine production], unwavering, without hypocrisy;

James 3:18 Moreover, the harvest of righteousness [the supergrace life] is sown in peace [tranquility] to the one who continues to produce peace [benefits from the consistent use of the grace apparatus for perception].