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JAMES ยท Chapter 1
1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve
tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when all of you fall into divers
temptations;
1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.
1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that all of you may be
perfect and entire, lacking nothing.
1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all
men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him.
1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers
is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the
Lord.
1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of
the grass he shall pass away.
1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers
the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of
it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1:12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried,
he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them
that love him.
1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God
cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust,
and enticed.
1:15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when
it is finished, brings forth death.
1:16 Do not go astray, my beloved brethren.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes
down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow
of turning.
1:18 Of his own will brings forth he us with the word of
truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak, slow to wrath:
1:20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and abundance of evil, and
receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save
your souls.
1:22 But be all of you doers of the word, and not hearers
only, deceiving your own selves.
1:23 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:
1:24 For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets
what manner of man he was.
1:25 But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues
therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this
man shall be blessed in his deed.
1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his
tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
1:27 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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