Worsley - James - 1

1:1  James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in dispersion sendeth greeting.

1:2  Account it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials:

1:3  knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience;

1:4  but let patience have it's perfect work, that ye may be entirely perfect, failing in nothing.

1:5  And if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.

1:6  But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea blown about and tossed by the wind.

1:7  Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.

1:8  A double-minded man is inconstant in all his ways.

1:9  Let the brother that is low rejoice in his exaltation: but the rich in his humiliation,

1:10  because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

1:11  For when the sun is risen with it's sultry heat, it drieth up the grass, and the flower of, it falleth, and the beauty of it's appearance is lost: so shall the rich man fade away in his projects.

1:12  Happy is the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.

1:13  Let no one that is tempted say, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted by evils, and He tempteth no one.

1:14  But every man is tempted, when drawn aside and insnared by his own vehement desire.

1:15  Then desire having conceived bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.

1:16  Be not therefore deceived, my beloved brethren: for every good gift,

1:17  and every perfect gift, but no evil one, is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, nor shadow of turning:

1:18  who hath of his own will begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.

1:19  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

1:20  for the wrath of man doth not practise the righteousness of God.

1:21  Laying aside therefore all filthiness, and excess of malice, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

1:22  But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

1:23  For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror,

1:24  who beheld himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what manner of man he was.

1:25  But he that looketh well into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

1:26  If any among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, this man's devotion is vain.

1:27  Pure and uncorrupt religion before God and our Father is this, to take care of orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.