diff --git a/60-JAS/03.usfm b/60-JAS/03.usfm index 6c1d9607..51189ae3 100644 --- a/60-JAS/03.usfm +++ b/60-JAS/03.usfm @@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ \v 11 Surely bitter water and good water do not come out of the same spring! \v 12 My brothers and sisters, a fig tree cannot produce olives. Nor can a grapevine produce figs. Neither can a salty spring produce good water. Similarly, we should speak only what is good, and we should not speak what is evil. - - \s5 \p \v 13 If any of you thinks that you are wise and know much, you should always act in a good way to show people that your good deeds are the result of your being truly wise. Being wise helps us to act gently toward others. @@ -39,7 +37,7 @@ \s5 \v 15 Those who think like this are not wise as God wants them to be. Instead, they are only thinking and acting as people who do not honor him. They think and act according to their own evil desires. They do what the demons want them to do. \v 16 Remember that people who think like this do not control themselves. They envy other people and act as if what they were doing were right, but it is wrong. They do every sort of evil. -\v 17 God in heaven makes us wise. First of all, he teach us to be morally pure. He teaches us how to make peace with others. He teaches us to be kind to others and to help them. He teaches to be kind to those who do not deserve it. He teaches us to do good things that have lasting results. He teaches us to never stop doing what is right and to be honest. +\v 17 God in heaven makes us wise. First of all, he teaches us to be morally pure. He teaches us how to make peace with others. He teaches us to be kind to others and to help them. He teaches to be kind to those who do not deserve it. He teaches us to do good things that have lasting results. He teaches us to never stop doing what is right and to be honest. \v 18 Those who act peacefully toward others cause them to also act peacefully, with the result that they all live together and act in the right way. diff --git a/60-JAS/05.usfm b/60-JAS/05.usfm index 4ee74fde..bd5bf0be 100644 --- a/60-JAS/05.usfm +++ b/60-JAS/05.usfm @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ \v 3 Your gold and silver are worthless, as though they were corroded. When God judges you, this worthless wealth of yours will be evidence that you are guilty of being greedy, and as rust and fire destroy things, God will severely punish you. You have in vain stored up wealth in a time when God is about to judge you. \s5 -\v 4 Think about what you have done. You did not pay the wages you promised to the workmen who harvested your fields for you. The pay you kept for yourself shows me your guilt and how unfair you were to them. The workers cry out to God, for how you treat them. And the Lord God of the angel armies listens to their loud cries. +\v 4 Think about what you have done. You did not pay the wages you promised to the workmen who harvested your fields for you. The pay you kept for yourself shows me your guilt and how unfair you were to them. The workers cry out to God because of the way you treat them. And the Lord God of the angel armies listens to their loud cries. \v 5 You have bought anything you wanted so you could live like kings. Just like cattle fatten themselves, not realizing that they will be slaughtered, you have lived just to enjoy things, not realizing that God will severely punish you. \v 6 You have arranged for others to condemn innocent people. You have arranged for others to kill people, even though those people had not done anything wrong. They were not able to defend themselves against you. My brothers and sisters, that is what I say to the rich people who oppress you. @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ \p \v 13 Whoever among you is experiencing trouble should pray that God would help him. Whoever is cheerful should sing songs of praise to God. \v 14 Whoever among you is sick should call the leaders of the congregation to come to pray for him. They should put olive oil on him and, with the Lord's authority, pray. -\v 15 If they truly trust in the Lord when they pray, the sick person will be healed. The Lord will heal him. If that person has sinned in a way that caused him to be sick, if he confesses what he did, he will be forgiven. +\v 15 The prayer that is offered to God with faith will heal the person who is sick. The Lord will restore his health. If that person has sinned, he will be forgiven. \s5 \v 16 So, because the Lord is able to heal the sick and to forgive sins, tell each other the sinful things that you have done, and pray for each other in order that you may be healed. If righteous people pray and ask fervently for God to do something, God will act powerfully and will certainly do it.