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James

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James 1 📜 📕 ↷

A Greeting from James

1 JAMES the servant of God and of our Lord JESUS Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in dispersion, greeting.📜💬📚

Rejoicing in Trials

2 Esteem it, my brethren, all joy, when you shall fall into diverse tentations:📜💬📚

3 knowing that the probation of your faith worketh patience.📜💬📚

4 And let patience have a perfect work: that you may be perfect & entire, failing in nothing.📜💬📚

5 But if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men aboundantly, and upbraideth not: and it shall be given him.📜💬📚

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubteth, is like to a wave of the sea, which is moved & carried about by the wind.📜💬📚

7 Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of our Lord.📜💬📚

8 A man double of mind is inconstant in all his ways.📜💬📚

9 But let the humble brother glory, in his exaltation:📜💬📚

10 and the rich, in his humility, because as the flower of grass shall he pass:📜💬📚

11 for the sun rose with heat, & parched the grass, and the flower of it fell away, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so the rich man also shall wither in his ways.📜💬📚

12 Blessed is the man that suffereth tentation: for when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.📜💬📚

Good and Perfect Gifts

13 Let no man when he is tempted, say that he is tempted of God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.📜💬📚

14 But every one is tempted of his own concupiscence abstracted and allured.📜💬📚

15 Afterward concupiscence when it hath conceived, bringeth forth sin. But sin when it is consummate, engendereth death.📜💬📚

16 Do not err therefore, my dearest brethren.📜💬📚

17 Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom is no transmutation, nor shadowing of alteration.📜💬📚

18 Voluntarily hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we may be some beginning of his creature.📜💬📚

Hearing and Doing

19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.📜💬📚

20 For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.📜💬📚

21 For the which thing casting away all uncleanness and aboundance of malice, in meekness receive the engraffed word, which is able to save your souls.📜💬📚

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your selves.📜💬📚

23 For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer: he shall be compared to a man beholding the countenance of his nativity in a glass.📜💬📚

24 For he considered himself, and went his way, and by and by forgat what an one he was.📜💬📚

25 But he that hath looked in the law of perfect liberty, and hath remained in it, not made a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.📜💬📚

26 And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but seducing his heart, this man's religion is vain.📜💬📚