James, a
servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to
the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad,
greeting.
02 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall
into divers temptations;
03 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith
worketh patience.
04 But let patience have her perfect work, that
ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
05 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth
not; and it shall be given him.
06 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea
driven with the wind and tossed.
07 For let not that man think that he shall
receive any thing of the Lord.
08 A double minded man is unstable in all his
ways.
09 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that
he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because
as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning
heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower
thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of
it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade
away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation:
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown
of life, which the Lord hath promised to them
that love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am
tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with
evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn
away of his own lust, and enticed.
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15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth
forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of
turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of
truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of
his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man
be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the
righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and
superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with
meekness the engrafted word, which is able to
save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers
only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a
doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural
face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way,
and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he
was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of
liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a
forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this
man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and
bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own
heart, this man's religion is vain.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the
Father is this, To visit the fatherless and
widows in their affliction, and to keep himself
unspotted from the world.
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