JAS-11  James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to

the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad greeting .

JAS-12  My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers

temptations .

JAS-13  Knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh

patience .

JAS-14  But let patience have her perfect work that ye may be

perfect and entire wanting nothing .

JAS-15  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-16  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-17  For let not that man think that he shall receive any

thing of the Lord .

JAS-18  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways .

JAS-19  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is

exalted .

JAS-110  But the rich in that he is made low because as the

flower of the grass he shall pass away .

JAS-111  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-112  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-113  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-114  But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his

own lust and enticed .

JAS-115  Then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and

sin when it is finished bringeth forth death .

JAS-116  Do not err my beloved brethren .

JAS-117  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-118  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that

we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures .

JAS-119  Wherefore my beloved brethren let every man be swift to

hear slow to speak slow to wrath .

JAS-120  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of

God .

JAS-121  Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of

naughtiness and receive with meekness the engrafted word which

is able to save your souls .

JAS-122  But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only

deceiving your own selves .

JAS-123  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-124  For he beholdeth himself and goeth his way and

straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was .

JAS-125  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-126  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-127  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 .

* JAS-21  My brethren have not the faith of our Lord Jesus

Christ the Lord of glory with respect of persons .

JAS-22  For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold

ring in goodly apparel and there come in also a poor man in vile

raiment .

JAS-23  And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing

and say unto him Sit thou here in a good place and say to the

poor Stand thou there or sit here under my footstool .

JAS-24  Are ye not then partial in yourselves and are become

judges of evil thoughts .

JAS-25  Hearken my beloved brethren Hath not God chosen the poor

of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he

hath promised to them that love him .

JAS-26  But ye have despised the poor Do not rich men oppress

you and draw you before the judgment seats .

JAS-27  Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye

are called .

JAS-28  If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself ye do well .

JAS-29  But if ye have respect to persons ye commit sin and are

convinced of the law as transgressors .

JAS-210  For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend

in one point he is guilty of all .

JAS-211  For he that said Do not commit adultery said also Do

not kill Now if thou commit no adultery yet if thou kill thou

art become a transgressor of the law .

JAS-212  So speak ye and so do as they that shall be judged by

the law of liberty .

JAS-213  For he shall have judgment without mercy that hath

showed no mercy and mercy rejoiceth against judgment .

JAS-214  What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he

hath faith and have not works can faith save him .

JAS-215  If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily

food .

JAS-216  And one of you say unto them Depart in peace be ye

warmed and filled notwithstanding ye give them not those things

which are needful to the body what doth it profit .

JAS-217  Even so faith if it hath not works is dead being alone .

JAS-218  Yea a man may say Thou hast faith and I have works show

me thy faith without thy works and I will show thee my faith by

my works .

JAS-219  Thou believest that there is one God thou doest well

the devils also believe and tremble .

JAS-220  But wilt thou know O vain man that faith without works

is dead .

JAS-221  Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he

had offered Isaac his son upon the altar .

JAS-222  Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by

works was faith made perfect .

JAS-223  And the scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham

believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and

he was called the Friend of God .

JAS-224  Ye see then how that by works a man is justified and

not by faith only .

JAS-225  Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by

works when she had received the messengers and had sent them out

another way .

JAS-226  For as the body without the spirit is dead so faith

without works is dead also .

* JAS-31  My brethren be not many masters knowing that we shall

receive the greater condemnation .

JAS-32  For in many things we offend all If any man offend not

in word the same is a perfect man and able also to bridle the

whole body .

JAS-33  Behold we put bits in the horses' mouths that they may

obey us and we turn about their whole body .

JAS-34  Behold also the ships which though they be so great and

are driven of fierce winds yet are they turned about with a very

small helm whithersoever the governor listeth .

JAS-35  Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great

things Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth .

JAS-36  And the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity so is the

tongue among our members that it defileth the whole body and

setteth on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of

hell .

JAS-37  For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents

and of things in the sea is tamed and hath been tamed of mankind

.

JAS-38  But the tongue can no man tame it is an unruly evil full

of deadly poison .

JAS-39  Therewith bless we God even the Father and therewith

curse we men which are made after the similitude of God .

JAS-310  Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing

My brethren these things ought not so to be .

JAS-311  Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet

water and bitter .

JAS-312  Can the fig tree my brethren bear olive berries either

a vine figs so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh .

JAS-313  Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you

let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness

of wisdom .

JAS-314  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts

glory not and lie not against the truth .

JAS-315  This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly

sensual devilish .

JAS-316  For where envying and strife is there is confusion and

every evil work .

JAS-317  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then

peaceable gentle and easy to be entreated full of mercy and good

fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy .

JAS-318  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them

that make peace .

* JAS-41  From whence come wars and fightings among you come

they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members .

JAS-42  Ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and

cannot obtain ye fight and war yet ye have not because ye ask

not .

JAS-43  Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may

consume it upon your lusts .

JAS-44  Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the

friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore

will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God .

JAS-45  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain The spirit

that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy .

JAS-46  But he giveth more grace Wherefore he saith God

resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble .

JAS-47  Submit yourselves therefore to God Resist the devil and

he will flee from you .

JAS-48  Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you Cleanse

your hands ye sinners and purify your hearts ye double minded .

JAS-49  Be afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter be

turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness .

JAS-410  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall

lift you up .

JAS-411  Speak not evil one of another brethren He that speaketh

evil of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the

law and judgeth the law but if thou judge the law thou art not a

doer of the law but a judge .

JAS-412  There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to

destroy who art thou that judgest another .

JAS-413  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 .

JAS-414  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow For

what is your life It is even a vapour that appeareth for a

little time and then vanisheth away .

JAS-415  For that ye ought to say If the Lord will we shall live

and do this or that .

JAS-416  But now ye rejoice in your boastings all such rejoicing

is evil .

JAS-417  Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it

not to him it is sin .

* JAS-51  Go to now ye rich men weep and howl for your miseries

that shall come upon you .

JAS-52  Your riches are corrupted and your garments are

motheaten .

JAS-53  Your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them

shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it

were fire Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days .

JAS-54  Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down

your fields which is of you kept back by fraud crieth and the

cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the

Lord of sabaoth .

JAS-55  Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton

ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter .

JAS-56  Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not

resist you .

JAS-57  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 .

JAS-58  Be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming

of the Lord draweth nigh .

JAS-59  Grudge not one against another brethren lest ye be

condemned behold the judge standeth before the door .

JAS-510  Take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the

name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of

patience .

JAS-511  Behold we count them happy which endure Ye have heard

of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord that

the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy .

JAS-512  But above all things my brethren swear not neither by

heaven neither by the earth neither by any other oath but let

your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into condemnation .

JAS-513  Is any among you afflicted let him pray Is any merry

let him sing psalms .

JAS-514  Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of

the church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in

the name of the Lord .

JAS-515  And the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the

Lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall

be forgiven him .

JAS-516  Confess your faults one to another and pray one for

another that ye may be healed The effectual fervent prayer of a

righteous man availeth much .

JAS-517  Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and

he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on

the earth by the space of three years and six months .

JAS-518  And he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the

earth brought forth her fruit .

JAS-519  Brethren if any of you do err from the truth and one

convert him .

JAS-520  Let him know that he which converteth the sinner from

the error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide

a multitude of sins .

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