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• Thou believest that there is only one God; that is well enough, but then, so do the devils, and the devils shrink from him in terror. (James 2, 19)

• Rash soul, wouldst thou be assured that faith without deeds to shew has no life in it? (James 2, 20)

• Think of our father Abraham; was it not by his deeds that he found approval, when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? (James 2, 21)

• See how his faith conspired with deeds done, and through those deeds his faith was realized. (James 2, 22)

• Thus he confirmed the words of scripture, which tell us, Abraham put his faith in God, and it was reckoned virtue in him, and he earned the title of God’s friend.✻ (James 2, 23)

• Or again, how did Rahab, the harlot, win God’s approval? Was it not by her deeds, when she harboured the spies and sent them home by a different way?✻ (James 2, 25)

• Do not be too eager, brethren, to impart instruction to others; be sure that, if we do, we shall be called to account all the more strictly. (James 3, 1)

• We are betrayed, all of us, into many faults; and a man who is not betrayed into faults of the tongue must be a man perfect at every point, who knows how to curb his whole body. (James 3, 2)

• Or look at ships; how huge they are, how boisterous are the winds that drive them along! And yet a tiny rudder will turn them this way and that, as the captain’s purpose will have it. (James 3, 4)

• Just so, the tongue is a tiny part of our body, and yet what power it can boast! How small a spark it takes to set fire to a vast forest! (James 3, 5)

• And that is what the tongue is, a fire. Among the organs of our nature, the tongue has its place as the proper element in which all that is harmful lives. It infects the whole body, and sets fire to this mortal sphere of ours, catching fire itself from hell.✻ (James 3, 6)

• Mankind can tame, and has long since learned to tame, every kind of beast and bird, of creeping things and all else;✻ (James 3, 7)