LO - James - 1

1:1  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Health.

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

1:3  knowing that the proof of your faith works out patience.

1:4  Let patience, therefore, have a perfect effect, that you may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

1:5  If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask it of God: who gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not, and it shall be given to him.

1:6  But let him ask in faith, being not at all irresolute: for he who is irresolute, is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

1:7  Now let not that man think, that he shall receive anything from the Lord.

1:8  A man of two minds, is unstable in all his ways.

1:9  Moreover, let the brother of humble condition glory in his exaltation,

1:10  and the rich in his humiliation; for as a garden flower he shall pass away.--

1:11  For the sun rises with a burning heat, and withers the herb, and its flower falls down, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also shall the rich man fade in his ways.

1:12  Blessed is the man who sustains trial, for becoming an approved person, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them who love him.

1:13  Let no one who is tempted say, Certainly I am tempted by God: for God is incapable of being tempted by evil things, and he tempts no one.

1:14  But every one is tempted, when he is drawn away, and enticed by his own lust:

1:15  then lust having conceived, brings forth sin, and sin, being perfected, brings forth death.

1:16  Be not deceived, my beloved brethren;

1:17  every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descended from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.

1:18  Of his own will, he begot us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of 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 works not out the righteousness of God.

1:21  Wherefore, putting away all filthiness, and overflowing of maliciousness, embrace with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

1:22  And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning.

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

1:24  for he who looks at himself and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was.

1:25  But he who looks narrowly into the perfect law of liberty, and perseveres, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of its work, shall, in so doing, be happy.

1:26  If any one among you think to be religious, who bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, the religion of this person is vain.

1:27  Pure religion, and undefiled, with God, even the Father, is this: To take care of orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.