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James 1

  1. 1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
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  2. 2My brethren, count it all joy when all of you fall into divers temptations;
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  3. 3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.
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  4. 4But let patience have her perfect work, that all of you may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.
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  5. 5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him.
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  6. 6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
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  7. 7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
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  8. 8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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  9. 9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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  10. 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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  11. 11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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  12. 12Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.
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  13. 13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
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  14. 14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
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  15. 15Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
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  16. 16Do not go astray, my beloved brethren.
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  17. 17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
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  18. 18Of his own will brings forth he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first- fruits of his creatures.
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  19. 19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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  20. 20For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
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  21. 21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and abundance of evil, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
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  22. 22But be all of you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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  23. 23For 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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  24. 24For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.
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  25. 25But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues 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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  26. 26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
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  27. 27Pure 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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