James the Just

Saint James the Just (A.D. ?-62) was an early Christian and close relative of Jesus Christ. He was the first Bishop of Jerusalem and his Epistle of James is part of the Holy Bible.


As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no....

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach shall be judged with greater strictness.

What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.