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The Books of the Bible
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The First Book of Chronicles. The Second Book of Chronicles. The Book of Ezra. The Book of Nehemiah. The Book of Esther. The Book of Job. The Book of Psalms. The Book of Proverbs. The Book of Ecclesiastes. The Book of Isaiah. The Book of Jeremiah. The Book of Lamentations. The Book of Ezekiel.
The Book of Daniel. The Book of Hosea. The Book of Joel. The Book of Amos. The Book of Obadiah.
The Book of Jonah. The Book of Micah. The Book of Nahum. The Book of Habakkuk.
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- Old Testament?
The Book of Zephaniah. The Book of Haggai. The Book of Zechariah. The Book of Malachi. The Gospel According to Matthew. The Gospel According to Mark. The Gospel According to Luke. The Gospel According to John. The Acts of the Apostles. The Epistle of Paul to the Romans. The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians. The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians.
The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians. The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians. The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians.
Old Testament
The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians. The First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians. The Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians. The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy. The Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy. The Epistle of Paul to Titus. The Epistle of Paul to Philemon. The epistle is renowned for exhortations on fighting poverty and caring for the poor in practical ways 1: Worldly wisdom is rejected and people are exhorted to embrace heavenly wisdom, which includes peacemaking and pursuing righteousness and justice 3: This approach sees the epistle as a real letter [30] with a real immediate purpose: It contains the following famous passage concerning salvation and justification:.
Can that faith save him? Even the demons believe—and shudder! That passage has been cited in Christian theological debates, especially regarding the doctrine of justification. Gaius Marius Victorinus 4th century associated James's teaching on works with the heretical Symmachian sect, followers of Symmachus the Ebionite , and openly questioned whether James' teachings were heretical. This passage has also been contrasted with the teachings of Paul the Apostle on justification.
Some scholars even believe that the passage is a response to Paul.
Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy have historically argued that the passage disproves the doctrine of justification by faith alone or sola fide , [35] [36] The early and many modern Protestants resolve the apparent conflict between James and Paul regarding faith and works in alternate ways from the Catholics and Orthodox: Paul was dealing with one kind of error while James was dealing with a different error.
The errorists Paul was dealing with were people who said that works of the law were needed to be added to faith in order to help earn God's favor. Paul countered this error by pointing out that salvation was by faith alone apart from deeds of the law Galatians 2: Paul also taught that saving faith is not dead but alive, showing thanks to God in deeds of love Galatians 5: James was dealing with errorists who said that if they had faith they didn't need to show love by a life of faith James 2: James countered this error by teaching that faith is alive, showing itself to be so by deeds of love James 2: James and Paul both teach that salvation is by faith alone and also that faith is never alone but shows itself to be alive by deeds of love that express a believer's thanks to God for the free gift of salvation by faith in Jesus.
James - Chapter 1
The epistle is also the chief biblical text for the Anointing of the 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. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Wells suggested that the passage was evidence of late authorship of the epistle, on the grounds that the healing of the sick being done through an official body of presbyters elders indicated a considerable development of ecclesiastical organisation "whereas in Paul's day to heal and work miracles pertained to believers indiscriminately I Corinthians, XII: The Epistle was first explicitly referred to and quoted by Origen of Alexandria , and possibly a bit earlier by Irenaeus of Lyons [41] as well as Clement of Alexandria in a lost work according to Eusebius , although it was not mentioned by Tertullian , who was writing at the end of the Second Century.
Today, virtually all denominations of Christianity consider this book to be a canonical epistle of the New Testament. In the first centuries of the Church the authenticity of the Epistle was doubted by some, including Theodore , Bishop of Mopsuestia in Cilicia. Because of the silence of several of the western churches regarding it, Eusebius classes it among the Antilegomena or contested writings Historia ecclesiae , 3. Jerome gives a similar appraisal but adds that with time it had been universally admitted. Its late recognition in the Church, especially in the West, may be explained by the fact that it was written for or by Jewish Christians , and therefore not widely circulated among the Gentile Churches.
There is some indication that a few groups distrusted the book because of its doctrine. In Reformation times a few theologians, most notably Martin Luther in his early career, [44] argued that this epistle should not be part of the canonical New Testament. Martin Luther's description of the Epistle of James changes.
Books of the Bible - King James Version
In some cases, Luther argues that it was not written by an apostle; but in other cases, he describes James as the work of an apostle. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not to be confused with Gospel of James. Matthew Mark Luke John. Antilegomena and Biblical canon. New International Greek Testament Commentary: The Epistle of James Repr. Craig A Evans, ed. Bible Knowledge Background Commentary: Retrieved 16 May