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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