Jubilee2000 - James - 1

1:1  James, [a] servant of God and of the Lord Jesus, the Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into diverse trials,

1:3  knowing that the proving of your faith works patience,

1:4  and the patience finishes the work, that ye may be perfect and entire, not lacking in anything.

1:5  And if any of you lacks wisdom, let them ask of God (who gives abundantly to all, and without reproach), and it shall be given them.

1:6  But ask in faith, not doubting anything. For [he] that doubts is like the wave of the sea which is driven of the wind and is tossed from one side to another.

1:7  For let not such [a] man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.

1:8  The double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.

1:9  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in his high status;

1:10  and he who is rich, in his low status, because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

1:11  For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beautiful appearance of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

1:12  Blessed is the man that [patiently] endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those that love him.

1:13  Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does he tempt anyone:

1:14  But each one is tempted, when they are drawn away of their own lust and enticed.

1:15  Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

1:16  Do not err, my beloved brethren.

1:17  Every 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.

1:18  He, of his own will, has begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be the firstfruits of his creatures.

1:19  Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

1:20  for the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.

1:21  So then, leave all uncleanness and remains of malice and receive with meekness the word ingested within you, which is able to cause your souls to be saved.

1:22  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

1:23  For if anyone hears the word and does not put it into practice, this same is like unto the man beholding his natural face in a mirror:

1:24  For he considered himself and went his way and in one hour forgot what he was like.

1:25  But whosoever has looked [attentively] into the perfect law of liberty and has persevered [in it], not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, the same shall be blessed in their deed.

1:26  If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle their tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion [is] vain.

1:27  The pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation [and] to keep thyself unspotted from this world.: