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“The Bible is being translated, commented on, read, studied, preached and analyzed as never before. But it is questionable whether it is being obeyed to a comparable degree,” says Douglas Moo in the preface to his commentary on James. “All this suggests that the message of James is one that we all need to hear—and obey. No profound theologian, James’ genius lied in his profound moral earnestness;...

James’ concern. He is deeply troubled by an attitude towards ‘faith’ that sees it mainly as a verbal profession—such as the confession that ‘God is one’ (v. 19). This is a faith that is ‘apart from’ works (vv. 20, 26), and James views this faith as ‘dead’ (vv. 17, 26), ‘barren’ (v. 20); it does not have the power to save (v. 14) or to justify (v. 24). James assumes the necessity of faith. He claims to have faith (v. 18). But the faith he has, ‘real faith’, ‘has works’ (vv. 14, 17), is ‘completed
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