RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

19 You believe that there is tvkt Echad; you do well:
the shadim also believe, and tremble. 5460
20 But will you know, O vain man, 5461 that emunah
without mitzvoth is dead?
21 Was not Avraham our abba 5462 made tzadik by
mitzvoth, when he had offered Yitzchak his son upon the
altar?
22 Do you see how emunah worked with his mitzvoth,
and by mitzvoth was his emunah made perfect?
23 And the Katuv was fulfilled which said, Avraham
believed vuvh, and it was counted to him for tzedakah:
and he was called the chaver of vuvh.
24 You see then how that by mitzvoth a man is made
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tzadik, and not by emunah only.
25 Likewise also was not Rachav the harlot made tzadik
by mitzvoth, when she had received the spies, and had
sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the ruach is dead, so emunah
without mitzvoth is dead also.
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My Yisraelite brothers, not many should be rabbis,
5465 knowing that we shall receive a stronger mishpat. 5466
2 For in many things we offend all people. If any man
offend not in speech, the same is a perfect man, and able
also to bridle the whole body.
3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, so that they
may obey us; and we turn their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great,
and are driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned around
with a very small rudder, in any way that the captain
desires.
5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and yet boasts
great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire
ignites!
6 And the tongue is a fire, and the sinful world a forest: so
is the tongue among our members, it can defile the whole
body, and sets on fire the course of our Yisraelite race
that rolls on like a wheel; and it burns on with the fire of
Gei-Hinnom. 5467
7 For every kind of beast, and of birds, and of serpents,
and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by
mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is unruly, evil, and
full of deadly poison. 5468
9 With it we bless tvkt, even our Abba; and with it we
curse men, who are made after the image of the Master
vuvh.
10 Out of the same mouth proceeds brachot and cursing.
My Yisraelite brothers, these things should not be
so. 5469
11 Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet
mayim and bitter?
12 Can the fig eytz, my Yisraelite brothers, bear olive
berries? Or, a vine, figs? So likewise saltwater cannot be
made sweet.
13 Who is a wise man and endued with training among
you? Let him show a tov lifestyle with his mitzvoth in
meekness of chochmah.
14 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your
levim, boast not, and lie not against the emet.
15 This chochmah descends not from above, but is
earthly, sensual, and from s.a.tan.
16 For where envy and strife is, there is confusion and
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every evil work.
17 But the chochmah that is from above is first perfect,
then full of shalom, 5470 gentle, and ready to obey, full of
rachamim and tov fruits, without partiality, and without
hypocrisy. 5471
18 And those that make shalom sow the fruit of tzedakah
in shalom. 5472
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From where do wars and fighting among you come?
Do they not come from your desires that war in your
members?
2 You desire, and have not: you kill, and desire to have,
and cannot obtain: you strive and fight; yet you have not,
because you ask not.
3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask wickedly,
that you may satisfy your lusts.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that
chavurah with worldly things is enmity with vuvh ?
Whoever therefore wants to be a chaver of worldly things
is the enemy of vuvh.
5 Do you think that the Katuv said in vain, The ruach that
dwells in us is being provoked to envy?
6 But He gives more favor. Therefore He said, vuvh
resists the proud, but gives favor to the humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to vuvh. Resist s.a.tan, and
he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to vuvh, and He will draw near to you.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your levim,
you double minded.
9 Lament, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be
turned to mourning, and your simcha to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Master vuvh,
and He shall lift you up.
11 Speak not evil one of another, Yisraelite brothers. He
that speaks evil of his brother, and judges his brother,
speaks evil of the Torah, and judges the Torah: But if you
judge the Torah, you are not a doer of the Torah, but a
judge of it. 5473
12 There is one Lawgiver and Shophet, who is able to
save and to destroy: who are you to judge your neighbor?
13 Come now, you that say, Today, or tomorrow we will
go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and
sell, and prosper:
14 You do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is
your chayim? It is even a vapor that appears for a little
time, and then vanishes away.
15 For what you should say is, The Master vuvh willing,
we shall have chayim, and do this, or that. 5474
16 But now you gilah in your boastings: all such pride is
evil.
17 Therefore to him that knows to do tov, and does it not,
to him it is sin. 5475
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Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is tarnished; and their rust shall be
a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as it was
fire. You have stored up treasure together for the yamim
acharonim.
4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your
fields, that you hold back by fraud, cries: and the cries of