All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Accept the Word
2 Tim 3:16
Good verse: or even ʾemeṯ (). The range of meaning
Joshua 24:14 ESV
“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
Studious
Luke Timothy Johnson, The Letter of James: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, vol. 37A, Anchor Yale Bible (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008), 200.
Studious
Studious
Quick to hear
Slow to speak
Slow to anger
Luke Timothy Johnson, The Letter of James: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, vol. 37A, Anchor Yale Bible (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008), 199.
The third part of the commandment breaks the grammatical pattern, perhaps for rhetorical effect. The dangers of anger (orgē) are extensively catalogued in ancient moral discourse