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THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF
JAMES

CHAPTER 1

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God—Resist temptation—Be ye doers of the word—How to recognize pure religion.

1 James, a ^aservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are ^bscattered abroad, greeting.

2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into ^adivers ^btemptations;

3 Knowing this, that the ^atrying of your faith worketh ^bpatience.

4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be ^aperfect and entire, wanting nothing.

5 ^aIf any of you lack ^bwisdom, let him ask of God, that ^cgiveth to all men liberally, and ^dupbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ^aask in ^bfaith, nothing ^cwavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8 A ^adouble minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the brother of ^alow degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the ^agrass he shall pass away.

11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the ^agrace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the ^brich man fade away in his ways.

12 ^aBlessed is the man that ^bendureth temptation: for when he is ^ctried, he shall receive the ^dcrown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be ^atempted with ^bevil, neither tempteth he any man:

14 But every man is ^atempted, when he is drawn away of his own ^blust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth ^asin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.

17 Every ^agood ^bgift and every perfect ^cgift is from above, and ^dcometh down from the Father of ^elights, with whom is no ^fvariableness, neither shadow of turning.

18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to ^aspeak, ^bslow to ^cwrath:

20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

21 Wherefore lay apart all ^afilthiness and ^bsuperfluity of naughtiness, and receive with ^cmeekness the ^dengrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be ye ^adoers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if any be a ^ahearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a ^bglass:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25 But whoso looketh into the perfect ^alaw of ^bliberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his ^atongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is ^bvain.

27 Pure ^areligion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To ^bvisit the ^cfatherless and ^dwidows in their ^eaffliction, and to keep himself ^funspotted from ^gthe ^hworld.

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