diff --git a/60-JAS/01.usfm b/60-JAS/01.usfm index 767d519c..15a32936 100644 --- a/60-JAS/01.usfm +++ b/60-JAS/01.usfm @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ \s5 \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 27 Clean and spotless religion before our God and Father is this: To help the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself spotless from the world. +\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. diff --git a/60-JAS/02.usfm b/60-JAS/02.usfm index e9d580f7..a5b62cc9 100644 --- a/60-JAS/02.usfm +++ b/60-JAS/02.usfm @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ \s5 \p -\v 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith, but if he has no works? Can that faith save him? +\v 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? \v 15 Suppose that a brother or sister is badly clothed and lacks food for the day. \v 16 Suppose that one of you says to them, "Go in peace, stay warm and be filled." If you do not give them the things necessary for the body, what good is that? \v 17 In the same way faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ \s5 \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, likewise also, faith apart from works is dead. +\v 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. diff --git a/60-JAS/03.usfm b/60-JAS/03.usfm index 7fc4869e..e369be14 100644 --- a/60-JAS/03.usfm +++ b/60-JAS/03.usfm @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ \s5 \v 7 For every kind of wild animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is being tamed and has been tamed by mankind. -\v 8 But as for the tongue, no one among man is able to tame it. It is an uncontrollable evil, full of deadly poison. +\v 8 But no human being can tame the tongue. It is an restless evil, full of deadly poison. \s5 \v 9 With it we praise the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ \s5 \v 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above. Instead, it is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. \v 16 For where there are jealousy and ambition, there is confusion and every evil practice. -\v 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, responsive, full of mercy and good fruit, unweakening, and sincere. +\v 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. \v 18 The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace among those who make peace. diff --git a/60-JAS/05.usfm b/60-JAS/05.usfm index 62ddecf0..d4ce5cd1 100644 --- a/60-JAS/05.usfm +++ b/60-JAS/05.usfm @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ \p \v 1 Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail because of the miseries coming on you. \v 2 Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten. -\v 3 Your gold and your silver have corroded. Their corrosion will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up your treasure for the last days. +\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. \s5 \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.