Murdock - James - 1

1:1  JAMES, a servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; to the twelve tribes dispersed among the Gentiles; greeting peace.

1:2  Let it be all joy to you, my brethren, when ye enter into many and various trials.

1:3  For ye know, that the trial of your faith, maketh you possess patience.

1:4  And let patience have its perfect work, so that ye may be complete and perfect, and may lack nothing.

1:5  And if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all freely, and reproacheth not; and it will be given him.

1:6  But let him ask in faith, not hesitating: he who hesitateth is like the waves of the sea, which the wind agitateth.

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

1:8  who is hesitating in his mind, and unstable in all his ways.

1:9  And let the depressed brother rejoice, in his elevation;

1:10  and the rich, in his depression; because, like the flower of an herb, so he passeth away.

1:11  For the sun riseth in its heat, and drieth up the herb; and its flower falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth: so also the rich man withereth in his ways.

1:12  Blessed is the man who endureth temptations; so that when he is proved he may receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.

1:13  Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted with evils, nor doth he tempt any man.

1:14  But every man is tempted by his own lust; and he lusteth, and is drawn away.

1:15  And this his lust conceiveth, and bringeth forth sin; and sin, when mature, bringeth forth death.

1:16  Do not err, my beloved brethren.

1:17  Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no mutation, not even the shadow of change.

1:18  He saw fit, and begat us by the word of truth; that we might be the first-fruits of his creatures.

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

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

1:21  Wherefore, remove far from you all impurity, and the abundance of wickedness; and, with meekness, receive the word that is implanted in our nature, which is able to vivify these your souls.

1:22  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only; and do not deceive yourselves.

1:23  For if any man shall be a hearer of the word, and not a doer of it, he will be like one who seeth his face in a mirror:

1:24  for he seeth himself, and passeth on, and forgetteth what a man he was.

1:25  But every one that looketh upon the perfect law of liberty and abideth in it, is not a hearer of something to be forgotten, but a doer of the things; and he will be blessed in his work.

1:26  And if any one thinketh that he worshippeth God, and doth not restrain his tongue, but his heart deceiveth him; his worship is vain.

1:27  For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world.