The five individual chapter commentaries on the epistle of James that I have written have been incorporated into one text of the entire epistle. The first two chapter commentaries were written in 1998 and have been greatly modified for this text. The intent was to clean up some of the very poorly worded text in the first two editions and to show important Bible verses rather than just refer to them. An effort has also been made to convert previously used first person language with more formal third person language. That having been said and in looking at the first chapter of the epistle of...

Two of the books of the scriptures that should be studied daily are the book of Proverbs and the book of Psalms. The book of Proverbs will show one how to be biblically wise in the things of the Lord. That book is primarily for spiritual guidance in this existence. But even an ungodly person will prosper by studying and incorporating its principles. In the same sense, the book of Psalms will also benefit anyone that studies it on a regular basis. Most of the psalms had been written by David. However, quite a few of them had been written by people that had been experiencing the seventy-year...