Study Desk

God is a God of peace. He raised our Lord Jesus from the dead. Jesus is the Good Shepherd of the sheep. His blood made the New Way of Worship which will last forever.

May God give you every good thing you need so you can do what He wants. May He do in us what pleases Him through Jesus Christ. May Christ have all the shining-greatness forever! Let it be so.

This letter is from James. I am a servant owned by God and the Lord Jesus Christ. I greet the twelve family groups of the Jewish nation living in many parts of the world.

If you do not have wisdom, ask God for it. He is always ready to give it to you and will never say you are wrong for asking.

A Christian brother who has few riches of this world should be happy for what he has. He is great in the eyes of God.

The man who does not give up when tests come is happy. After the test is over, he will receive the crown of life. God has promised this to those who love Him.

When you are tempted to do wrong, do not say, "God is tempting me." God cannot be tempted. He will never tempt anyone.

Whatever is good and perfect comes to us from God. He is the One Who made all light. He does not change. No shadow is made by His turning.

A man's anger does not allow him to be right with God.

Obey the Word of God. If you hear only and do not act, you are only fooling yourself.

Anyone who hears the Word of God and does not obey is like a man looking at his face in a mirror.

Religion that is pure and good before God the Father is to help children who have no parents and to care for women whose husbands have died who have troubles. Pure religion is also to keep yourself clean from the sinful things of the world.

Listen, my dear Christian brothers, God has chosen those who are poor in the things of this world to be rich in faith. The holy nation of heaven is theirs. That is what God promised to those who love Him.

Anyone who shows no loving-kindness will have no loving-kindness shown to him when he is told he is guilty. But if you show loving-kindness, God will show loving-kindness to you when you are told you are guilty.

You believe there is one God. That is good! But even the demons believe that, and because they do, they shake.

Was not our early father Abraham right with God by what he did? He obeyed God and put his son Isaac on the altar to die.

It happened as the Holy Writings said it would happen. They say, "Abraham put his trust in God and he became right with God." He was called the friend of God.

A man becomes right with God by what he does and not by faith only.

The same was true with Rahab, the woman who sold the use of her body. She became right with God by what she did in helping the men who had been sent to look through the country and sent them away by another road.

With our tongue we give thanks to our Father in heaven. And with our tongue we speak bad words against men who are made like God.