1James,
a servant of
God and of
the Lord
Jesus
Christ, to
the twelve
tribes which
are
scattered
abroad,
greeting.
2My
brethren,
count it all
joy when ye
fall into
divers
temptations;
3Knowing this,
that the
trying of
your faith
worketh
patience.
4But
let patience
have her perfect
work, that
ye may be
perfect and
entire,
wanting
nothing.
5If
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.
6But
let him ask
in faith,
nothing
wavering.
For he that
wavereth is
like a wave
of the sea
driven with
the wind and
tossed.
7For
let not that
man think
that he
shall
receive any
thing of the
Lord.
8A
double
minded man is unstable
in all his
ways.
9Let
the brother
of low
degree
rejoice in
that he is
exalted:
10But
the rich, in
that he is
made low:
because as
the flower
of the grass
he shall
pass away.
11For
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.
12Blessed 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.
13Let
no man say
when he is
tempted, I
am tempted
of God: for
God cannot
be tempted
with evil,
neither
tempteth he
any man:
14But
every man is
tempted,
when he is
drawn away
of his own
lust, and
enticed.
15Then
when lust
hath
conceived,
it bringeth
forth sin:
and sin,
when it is
finished,
bringeth
forth death.
16Do
not err, my
beloved
brethren.
17Every
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.
18Of
his own will
begat he us
with the
word of
truth, that
we should be
a kind of
firstfruits
of his
creatures.
19Wherefore,
my beloved
brethren,
let every
man be swift
to hear,
slow to
speak, slow
to wrath:
20For
the wrath of
man worketh
not the
righteousness
of God.
21Wherefore
lay apart
all
filthiness
and
superfluity
of
naughtiness,
and receive
with
meekness the
engrafted
word, which
is able to
save your
souls.
22But
be ye doers
of the word,
and not
hearers
only,
deceiving
your own
selves.
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:
24For
he beholdeth
himself, and
goeth his
way, and
straightway
forgetteth
what manner
of man he
was.
25But
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.
26If
any man
among you
seem to be
religious,
and bridleth
not his
tongue, but
deceiveth
his own
heart, this
man's
religion is vain.
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.