Bible in a Year 12/20/2016

Summary Verses
3:2 As followers of Christ we must bridle our tongues with faith and charity. 3:6 Out tongue is fire which defiles the whole body, therefore we must watch our speech. 3:15 The wisdom of man comes from selfish gain, sensual and evil desires. 3:17 But wisdom which comes from above is peaceable, good and honest. 4:1 James explains that our contentions come from the desires of our evil hearts. 4:7 James exhorts us to submit to God in all humility, resist the devil and he will flee from you. 4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Urge your hearts do not be double minded. 4:10 We are to cast ourselves before the Lord and let Him lift us up. 4:14 We do not know what tomorrow will bring so we should submit to the Lord today. 5:1 Any riches gathered from sin, deceit and pride will be greatly punished by God. 5:7 We are to be patient in the Lord and wait upon Him. 5:8 Therefore we should be patient and settle our hearts for the return of Christ draws near. 5:11 We should have patience and bear affliction as Job did. 5:14 Let us pray together and trust the Lord in our afflictions. 1:1 Peter’s salutation where he extols God’s mercy shown in Christ which we lay hold of by faith and possess through hope. 1:10 A salvation of which the prophets foretold. 1:13 Wherefore we gird up our minds and being sober we trust on the perfect grace of Christ. 1:15 And we are to be holy in all manner of things including our conversations. 1:23 Peter exhorts us we have been born anew not of mortal flesh, but by the immortal word of God who lives and endures forever.

James Chapter 3
3:1 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.
3:2 For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
3:3 Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body.
3:4 Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.
3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles
3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.
3:7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.
3:8 But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
3:9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.
3:10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.
3:11 Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening?
3:12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.
3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.
3:14 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
3:16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.
3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
3:18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

James Chapter 4
4:1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
4:2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
4:6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”
4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
4:9 Lament and mourn and weep Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
4:11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
4:12 There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?
4:13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”;
4:14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
4:15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
4:16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
4:17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

James Chapter 5
5:1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you
5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
5:3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.
5:4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5:5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
5:6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
5:7 Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain.
5:8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
5:9 Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door
5:10 My brethren, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of suffering and patience.
5:11 Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord-that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
5:12 But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. But let your “Yes,” be “Yes,” and your “No,”  “No,” lest you fall into judgment.
5:13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms.
5:14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
5:15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
5:16 Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
5:17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
5:19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,
5:20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.

1st Peter Chapter 1
1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1:2 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1:4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
1:5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,
1:7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
1:8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
1:9 receiving the end of your faith-the salvation of your souls.
1:10 Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
1:11 searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
1:12 To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven-things which angels desire to look into.
1:13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1:14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;
1:15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
1:16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear;
1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
1:19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
1:20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you
1:21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
1:24 because  “All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away,
1:25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.” Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.