Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. (NIV)

So be patient, brethren, [as you wait] till the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits expectantly for the precious harvest from the land. [See how] he keeps up his patient [vigil] over it until it receives the early and late rains. (AMP)

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. (KJV)

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. (NIV)

Who is there among you who is wise and intelligent? Then let him by his noble living show forth his [good] works with the [unobtrusive] humility [which is the proper attribute] of true wisdom. (AMP)

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. (KJV)

But each of you is tempted when you are dragged away by your own evil desire and enticed. (NIV)

But every person is tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions). (AMP)

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. (KJV)

He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. (NIV)

And it was of His own [free] will that He gave us birth [as sons] by [His] Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures [a sample of what He created to be consecrated to Himself]. (AMP)

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. (KJV)

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. (NIV)

For as the human body apart from the spirit is lifeless, so faith apart from [its] works of obedience is also dead. (AMP)

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. (KJV)

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. (NIV)

COME NOW, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries (the woes) that are surely coming upon you. (AMP)

Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. (KJV)

Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." (NIV)

Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and carry on our business and make money. (AMP)

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: (KJV)

Have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? (NIV)

Are you not discriminating among your own and becoming critics and judges with wrong motives? (AMP)

Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? (KJV)

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. (NIV)

So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls. (AMP)

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. (KJV)

You see that people are justified by what they do and not by faith alone. (NIV)

You see that a man is justified (pronounced righteous before God) through what he does and not alone through faith [through works of obedience as well as by what he believes]. (AMP)

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. (KJV)