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Memorize James 2 Together—PLAY DAILY! - 6/15/2006 9:59:32 AM
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Quipper
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Games come in all shapes and sizes in this forum; some are kind of serious and some are silly. This one will help us benefit spiritually. The idea of this thread is to make Scripture memory fun, and to provide some accountability along the way! The book of James is very practical, and having it memorized word for word is amazingly beneficial (I once memorized all 5 chapters, but I need a lot of review!).
To play along, simply read the whole text below before posting (it's not very long!). You can just post a smiley to indicate that you've read the entire passage on any given day—no cheating! If you do it more than once in a day, you may post more than once. One post per reading. It just takes me about 120 seconds to read it through.
The longer-term goal is to completely memorize this chapter (and apply it, of course). If you read this chapter frequently, preferably out loud, you will increasingly be able to look away while you're ‘reading’ part of it from memory. Eventually, you'll be able to say the whole thing without any mistakes!
Feel free to post comments as well as smileys, indicating what progress you've made in your memorization!  This is a game, though, and not a place to discuss or debate the chapter's content or anything else. Have fun!
Some of you have visited the first thread in this series. Here's a quick link to that thread: Memorize James 1 Together!
James 2:
My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don’t show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
Listen, my dear brothers: 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? But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?
(verse 8) If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!
What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.
(verse 19) You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.
(verses 25 & 26) In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
GREAT JOB!
KEEP IT UP! 
Author: God, through James (NIV text used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House).
< Message edited by Quipper -- 6/15/2006 10:09:27 AM >
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RE: Memorize James 2 Together—PLAY DAILY! - 7/11/2006 11:08:45 AM
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Quipper
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Great stuff! :)
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RE: Memorize James 2 Together—PLAY DAILY! - 7/20/2006 9:24:40 AM
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^ Nice to 'see' you, Diane! :)
The NKJV is a very respectable translation!
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RE: Memorize James 2 Together—PLAY DAILY! - 9/5/2006 1:26:28 PM
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Quipper
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:)
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Rev. Ryan M.
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RE: Memorize James 2 Together—PLAY DAILY! - 9/9/2006 3:49:25 PM
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"Train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God." (Titus 2)
<---- Mr. & Mrs. Ryan :)
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