James:1

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* James , a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ , to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad , greeting . * Count it all joy , my brethren , when ye fall into various temptations ; * knowing that the trying of your faith worketh endurance . * But let endurance have a perfect work , that ye may be perfect and entire , wanting in nothing . * But if any one of you is wanting in wisdom , let him ask of God , who giveth to all liberally , and upbraideth not ; and it will be given him . * But let him ask in faith , nothing doubting ; for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed . * For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord , * a double –minded man as he is , unstable in all his ways . * Let the brother of low degree glory in that he is exalted ; * but the rich , in that he is made low ; because as the flower of the grass he will pass away . * For the sun rose with its burning heat , and withered the grass , and its flower fell off , and the beauty of its appearance perished ; so also will the rich man fade away in his ways . * Blessed is the man that endureth temptation ; for when he is approved , he will receive the crown of life , which He promised to them that love him . * Let no one when he is tempted , say , I am tempted by God ; for God cannot be tempted with evil , and he tempteth no one . * But each one is tempted when by his own lust he is led away and enticed ; * then lust , having conceived , bringeth forth sin , and sin , when completed , bringeth forth death . * Do not err , my beloved brethren . * Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above , coming down from the Father of the lights , with whom is no change , nor shadow from turning . * Of his own will he begot us with the word of truth , that we should be a kind of first –fruits of his creatures . * Wherefore , my beloved brethren , let every man be swift to hear , slow to speak , slow to wrath . * For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God . * Wherefore put off all filthiness , and excess of wickedness , and receive with meekness the implanted word , which is able to save your souls . * But be doers of the word , and not hearers only , deceiving yourselves . * For if any one is a hearer of the word , and not a doer , he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass ; * for he beholds himself , and goes away , and immediately forgets what manner of man he was . * But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty , and remains there , being not a forgetful hearer , but a doer of the work , this man will be blessed in his deed . * If any one thinks that he is religious , and bridles not his tongue , but deceives his own heart , this man ’s religion is vain . * Pure religion and undefiled before God , the Father , is this , to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction , and to keep one ’s self unspotted from the world .

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