THE LETTER OF JAMES – PART 4

SPEECH, WISDOM, AND PRAYER

I. Chapter 3 then turns from the overall theme that good works are essential to faith to a specific application with regard to speech. This section uses a rapid succession of vivid analogies in making the point.

D. The letter then compares ill speech to a fire that can burn a whole forest.

II. Coming back to the theme of the importance of good works, St. James now insists that true wisdom and understanding is shown in good works.