59_JAM_01_01 James, A servant of God And of the LORD Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
59_JAM_01_02 my brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
59_JAM_01_03 knowing [ this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
59_JAM_01_04 but let patience have [ her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect And entire, wanting nothing.
59_JAM_01_05 if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [ men] liberally, And upbraideth not; And it shall be given him.
59_JAM_01_06 but let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. for he that wavereth Is like A wave of the sea driven with the wind And tossed.
59_JAM_01_07 for let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD.
59_JAM_01_08 A double minded man [ Is] unstable in all his ways.
59_JAM_01_09 let the brother of low degree Rejoice in that he Is exalted:
59_JAM_01_10 but the rich, in that he Is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
59_JAM_01_11 for the sun Is no sooner risen with A burning heat, but it withereth the grass, And the flower thereof falleth, And the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
59_JAM_01_12 blessed [ Is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he Is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD hath promised to them that love him.
59_JAM_01_13 let no man say when he Is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
59_JAM_01_14 but every man Is tempted, when he Is drawn away of his own lust, And enticed.
59_JAM_01_15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: And sin, when it Is finished, bringeth forth death.
59_JAM_01_16 do not err, my beloved brethren.
59_JAM_01_17 every good gift And every perfect gift Is from above, And cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom Is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
59_JAM_01_18 of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be A kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
59_JAM_01_19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
59_JAM_01_20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
59_JAM_01_21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness And superfluity of naughtiness, And receive with meekness the engrafted word, which Is able to save your souls.
59_JAM_01_22 but be ye doers of the word, And not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
59_JAM_01_23 for if any be A hearer of the word, And not A doer, he Is like unto A man beholding his natural face in A glass:
59_JAM_01_24 for he beholdeth himself, And goeth his way, And straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
59_JAM_01_25 but whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, And continueth [ therein], he being not A forgetful hearer, but A doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
59_JAM_01_26 if any man among you seem to be religious, And bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [ Is] vain.
59_JAM_01_27 pure religion And undefiled before God And the Father Is this, to visit the fatherless And widows in their affliction, [ And] to keep himself unspotted from the world.