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James 1:1-27
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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