Bible, King James Version
James
Jas.1
[1] James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
[2] My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations;
[3] Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh
patience.
[4] But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be
perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
[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.
[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.
[7] For let not that man think that he shall receive any
thing of the Lord.
[8] A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
[9] 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.
[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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