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