Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Peter+002   Chapter 2 18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. 19 For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Peter+001 Introduction of 1 Peter   The apostle Peter was one of the twelve disciples Jesus appointed and taught during his time on earth. Peter spent the final years of his life and ministry—in the early 60s AD—as a leader of the church in Rome. When he learned that churches…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=James+005   James 5 (ESV) The Prayer of Faith 13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.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. 15 And the…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=James+004   James 4 (ESV) 11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is only one lawgiver and…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=James+003   James 3 (ESV) Taming the Tongue 1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 2 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle…

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=James+002   James 2 (ESV) Faith Without Works Is Dead 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace,…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=James+001   James   Introduction   James, one of the brothers of Jesus, became a leader of the church in Jerusalem after Jesus’ death and resurrection. He was respected for the advice he gave and for the wise decisions he helped the community of believers make (see Acts 15:13-21). At…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+005   Lamentations 5 (ESV) 15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. 16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! 17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, 18 for Mount Zion which lies…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+004       Lamentations 4 (ESV) 11 The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations. 12 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+003       Lamentations 3 (ESV) 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. 21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;…