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Chapter 1
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James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. |
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My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations; |
3
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Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh
patience. |
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But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may
be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. |
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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. |
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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. |
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For let not that man think that he shall receive any
thing of the Lord. |
8
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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. |
9
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Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is
exalted: |
10
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But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the
flower of the grass he shall pass away. |
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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. |
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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
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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: |
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But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of
his own lust, and enticed. |
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Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin:
and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. |
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Do not err, my beloved brethren. |
17
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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
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Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. |
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift
to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: |
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For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness
of God. |
21
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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity
of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted
word, which is able to save your souls. |
22
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves. |
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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: |
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For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway
forgetteth what manner of man he was. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
