James 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.
