James |
Synoptic
Gospels |
| 1:4: "And
let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect
and complete, lacking in nothing." |
Matt 5:48:
"Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father
is perfect." |
| 1:5: "But
if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all
generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. |
Luke
11:9 (see Matt 7:7): "So I say to you, ask, and it will
be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will
be opened to you."
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1:6: "But
he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts
is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
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Matt 21:21
(see Mark 11:23-24) "Truly I say to you, if you have faith
and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig
tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast
into the sea,' it will happen." |
1:17: "Every
good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming
down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation
or shifting shadow."
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Matt
7:11: "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven
give what is good to those who ask Him."
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| 1:22-23:
"But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers
who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and
not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in
a mirror." |
Luke 6:46-47:
"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?
Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will
show you whom he is like." |
| 2:5: Listen,
my beloved brothers: did not God choose the poor of this world
to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he promised
to those who love him? |
Matt
5:3, 5 (see Luke 6:20): "Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven....Blessed are the gentle,
for they shall inherit the earth." |
| 2:8: "If,
however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the scripture,
"You will love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing
well. |
Mark 12:31
(see Matt 22:39-40; Luke 10:27): "The second is this, 'You
will love your neighbor as yourself'. There is no other commandment
greater than these." |
| 2:13: "For
judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy
triumphs over judgment." |
Matt 5:7:
"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
|
3:12: "Can
a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs?
Nor can salt water produce fresh."
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Matt 7:16
(see Luke 6:44): "You will know them by their fruits. Grapes
are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are
they?" |
4:2-3: "You
lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and
cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because
you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with
wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures."
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Matt 7:7-8:
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;
knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives,
and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." |
| 4:9: "Be
miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into
mourning and your joy to gloom." |
Luke 6:25:
""Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall be
hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep." |
| 4:10: "Humble
yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you." |
Luke 4:11
(see Matt 23:12; Luke 18:14): "For everyone who exalts himself
will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
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| 4:11-12:
"Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks
against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law
and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer
of the law but a judge of it. There is only one lawgiver and judge,
the one who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who
judge your neighbor?" |
Luke 6:37
(see Matt 7:1): "Do not judge, and you will not be judged;
and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned" |
4:13-14:
"Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to
such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business
and make a profit.' Yet you do not know what your life will be
like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little
while and then vanishes away."
|
Matt 6:34:
"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for
itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." |
| 5:1: "Come
now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming
upon you." |
Luke 6:24-25:
"But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your
comfort in full. Woe to you who are well-fed now, for you shall
be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep." |
| 5:9: "Do
not complain, brothers, against one another, so that you yourselves
may not be judged. |
Matt 7:1:
"Do not judge so that you will not be judged." |
| 5:12:
"But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven
or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes,
and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment. |
Matt 5:34-37:
"But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven,
for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is the footstool
of his feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great
king. Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot
make one hair white or black. But let your statement be, 'Yes,
yes' or 'No, no'; anything beyond these is of the evil one." |
