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059:Book 59

059: James Book 59

059:James 001:001
James,
a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad,
greeting.

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My brethren,
count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

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Knowing this,
that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

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

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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.

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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.

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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:

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But every man is tempted,
when he is drawn away of his own lust,
and enticed.

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

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Do not err,
my beloved brethren.

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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.

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

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Wherefore,
my beloved brethren,
let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak,
slow to wrath:

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

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Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness,
and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
which is able to save your souls.

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

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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:

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

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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.

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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.

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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.