James:1

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* I am James . I am a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ . I send greetings to all of Gods people wherever they live . * My brothers , be very happy when you are tested by having troubles of many kinds . * You know this , that when you prove you believe , you become stronger to take troubles . * But you must keep on being strong to take trouble . Then you will be all right in every way . You will not need anything more . * If any of you need to be wise , ask God to make you wise . He gives plenty of wisdom to all people . He is not angry because you ask him . He will make you wise . * But when you ask , you must believe that God will do it . You must not doubt and think , Perhaps God will not do it . A person who doubts is like a wave on the sea . The wind drives it this way and that way . * That person must not think that he will get anything from the Lord . * A person like that has two minds . He cannot go straight in any of his ways . * A Christian brother who is poor should be glad : he is in a high place now he is a Christian . * A Christian brother who is rich should be glad : he is in a low place now he is a Christian . A rich man will pass away like a flower on the grass . * The sun shines and is very hot . Then the grass dries and its flower falls off . It was nice at first , but now it is not nice any more . In the same way , the rich man will die while he is going around trying to make money . * God will bless any man who is strong to take his trouble , when he is being tested . When he has proved he is strong , he will live for ever . That is what the Lord has promised to those who love him . * No one who wants to do something wrong should say , God is trying to make me do this wrong thing . God cannot do anything wrong . * It is their own heart which is wrong . That is why he wants to do something wrong . It fools him . * Then the wrong in his heart makes him do the wrong thing . And the wrong thing he has done leads to death . * My dear brothers , do not fool yourselves . * Every good thing and every fine gift comes from heaven . It comes from the Father of all light . He does not change and he makes no shadow by turning . * He made us his children because he wanted us . He made us his children by giving us his true word . He made us his children so that we would be the first and best of all he made . * My dear brothers , do not forget this . Every man should be quick to listen , slow to speak , and slow to be angry . * When a man is angry , he does not do what God says is right . * So stop all your dirty living . Stop doing so many wrong things . Listen quietly to the word that has been put in your hearts . It is able to save you . * But obey Gods word . Do not just listen to it . If you just listen to it , you fool yourselves . * Anyone who just listens to the word , and does not obey it , is like a man who looks at his face in a looking glass . * He looks at himself and goes away , and right away he forgets what he looked like . * But there is a law that is all right . It sets people free from their old ways . Anyone who looks into that law and remembers it , is happy because he obeys the law . He does not just listen to the law and forget it , but he obeys what the law says . * Some of you think that you are doing what God wants . But you are not careful what you say . If you are like that , you are fooling yourself . And you are not doing what God wants . * This is what God the Father wants . It is clean and right . Go and help those who have no father and mother . Go and help widow women whose husbands are dead . These people have troubles . And keep yourself clean from the wrong things in the world .

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