James 2 17-26

 a paraphrased ‘enter the story’

 🍃🕊️  reading & study  🕊️🍃

09/07 ~ From New Testament Letters

   (In the Order Believed Written)

17 - The thing is, faith alone, if it doesn’t have works (effects, results) is dead [nekros - dead, deceased, lacking life, from nekus - a corpse]. {The Way (following) has wide boggy ditches on either side (right and left). The two L’s — Legalism, do’s & don’ts focused upon, rather than abiding in the Logos, both personified and written; and License with Leniency which is simply more of this imperfection/entropy -> nekros.}

     18 What if someone says to me, “You have faith and I have works.” Then I will say, show me your faith apart from your works (changes, effects, doings, faithfulness and deeds) and I’ll show you the evidence of my faith, by my works (changes, effects, doings, faithfulness, deeds, behavior). 19 You believe in the one God, all well and good. But even the demons believe, and shudder! 20 Do you want proof, oh misled one, that faith apart from works is useless [argos - idle, lazy, inactive, barren, slow]? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac? {He passed the test/was tempered.} 22 You see that faith was alive thus active [sunergeó - root of synergy - working together with; cooperates, assists] along with his works. And so, faith was completed by works. 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness” and God called him his friend.

     24 So you see how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone? {Genuinely hearing and believing the Lord’s words, is to be a “doer of them” aka, a “follower”. Why would we delay? As teachers, a woe is associated with misleading.} 25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? {Because she believed their message and chose their side.} 26 For as the body apart from the spirit{/presence of Life} is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. {Fruit, effect. Faith, believing, knowing, occurs in the heart, and works its way outward. As a seed that actually sprouts, grows, and bears bud, flower and fruit. Needs ‘food’ and watering, 🍞🍷.}

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Tomorrows verses - James 3:1-2

My own studies, had to paraphrase to post..

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