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Relentless Love: Reflections on the Book of Jonah

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:2 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verses 16 and 19; and in 2:1, 5, 14; 3:10, 12; 4:11; 5:7, 9, 10, 12, 19.</span></span></span><span class="content"> whenever you face trials of many kinds, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JAS.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When tempted, no one should say, &#8220;God is tempting me.&#8221; For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JAS.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JAS.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JAS.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JAS.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JAS.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, &#8220;Here&#8217;s a good seat for you,&#8221; but say to the poor man, &#8220;You stand there&#8221; or &#8220;Sit on the floor by my feet,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JAS.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JAS.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content"> you are doing right. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JAS.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JAS.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">yourselves as in a day of feasting</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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