JAS-1:1  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

to the twelve

tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

JAS-1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers

temptations;

JAS-1:3  Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh

patience.

JAS-1:4  But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may

be perfect and

entire, wanting nothing.

JAS-1:5  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.

JAS-1:6  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.

JAS-1:7  For let not that man think that he shall receive any

thing of the

Lord.

JAS-1:8  A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.

JAS-1:9  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is

exalted:

JAS-1:10  But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the

flower of the

grass he shall pass away.

JAS-1:11  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.

JAS-1:12  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.

JAS-1:13  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:

JAS-1:14  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his

own lust, and

enticed.

JAS-1:15  Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin:

and sin, when

it is finished, bringeth forth death.

JAS-1:16  Do not err, my beloved brethren.

JAS-1:17  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.

JAS-1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,

that we should be

a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

JAS-1:19  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift

to hear, slow

to speak, slow to wrath:

JAS-1:20  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of

God.

JAS-1:21  Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of

naughtiness,

and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to

save your souls.

JAS-1:22  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,

deceiving your own

selves.

JAS-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:

JAS-1:24  For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and

straightway

forgetteth what manner of man he was.

JAS-1:25  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.

JAS-1:26  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.

JAS-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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