Etheridge - James - 1

1:1  JAKUB, a servant of Aloha and of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, unto the twelve tribes who are dispersed among the nations: Peace.

1:2  All joy shall be to you, my brethren, when you shall have entered into temptations many and various.

1:3  For you know that the proving of faith maketh you to possess patience;

1:4  but to patience let there be a perfect work, that you may be complete and perfected, and in nothing be deficient.

1:5  If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask of Aloha, who giveth to all expansively, and upbraideth not, and it is given to him.

1:6  But let him ask in faith, not wavering. For he who wavereth is like the waves of the sea which the wind disturbeth.

1:7  And let not that man expect to receive any thing from the Lord,

1:8  who is divided in his mind, and disturbed in all his ways.

1:9  But let the humble brother glory in his exaltation,

1:10  and the rich in his humility; for as the flower of an herb, so he passeth.

1:11  For the sun ariseth in his heat, and drieth the herb, and the flower of it falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth; so also the rich withereth in his reverses.

1:12  Blessed the man who endureth temptations: for when he hath been proved he shall receive the crown of life, which Aloha hath promised unto them who love him.

1:13  Let no man say, when he is tempted, From Aloha I am tempted; for Aloha is not tempted with evils, and he no man tempteth.

1:14  But each man from his concupiscence tempteth himself, and desireth, and is drawn away.

1:15  And this desire conceiveth and beareth sin; and sin, when it is perfected, beareth death.

1:16  Do not err, my beloved brethren;

1:17  every good gift and perfect from above descendeth, from the Father of lights, with whom is no alteration, nor the shadow of vicissitude.

1:18  He willed, and begat us by the word of truth, that we might be the first-ones of his creatures.

1:19  And you, my beloved brethren, let every one of you be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and slow to be angry;

1:20  for the wrath of man the righteousness of Aloha worketh not.

1:21  Wherefore, remove from you all impurity and the abounding of wickedness, and with meekness receive the word which is engrafted in our nature, which is able to save your souls.

1:22  BUT be doers of the word, and not hearers only, neither deceive yourselves.

1:23  For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer of it, this (man) is like one who vieweth his face in a mirror;

1:24  for he seeth himself and passeth, and hath forgotten what (manner of person) he was.

1:25  But every one who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he is not a hearer of the hearing of forgetfulness, but a doer of works; and this shall be blessed in his work.

1:26  And if a man thinketh that he serveth Aloha, and holdeth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, of this man his service is vain.

1:27  For the service which is pure and true before Aloha the Father, is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their afflictions, and that a man keep himself from the world without blemish.