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 . * My brethren , count it all joy when all of you fall into divers temptations ; * Knowing this , that the trying of your faith works patience . * But let patience have her perfect work , that all of you may be perfect and entire , lacking nothing . * If any of you lack wisdom , let him ask of God , that gives to all men liberally , and reproaches not ; and it shall be given him . * But let him ask in faith , nothing wavering . For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed . * For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord . * A double minded man is unstable in all his ways . * Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted : * But the rich , in that he is made low : because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away . * For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat , but it withers the grass , and the flower thereof falls , and the grace of the fashion of it perishes : so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways . * Blessed is the man that endures temptation : for when he is tried , he shall receive the crown of life , which the Lord has promised to them that love him . * Let no man say when he is tempted , I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil , neither tempts he any man : * But every man is tempted , when he is drawn away of his own lust , and enticed . * Then when lust has conceived , it brings forth sin : and sin , when it is finished , brings forth death . * Do not go astray , my beloved brethren . * Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above , and comes down from the Father of lights , with whom is no variableness , neither shadow of turning . * Of his own will brings forth he us with the word (o . logos ) 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 works not the righteousness of God . * Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and abundance of evil , and receive with meekness the implanted word , (o . logos ) which is able to save your souls . * But be all of you doers of the word , (o . logos ) and not hearers only , deceiving your own selves . * For if any be a hearer of the word , (o . logos ) and not a doer , he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : * For he beholds himself , and goes his way , and immediately forgets what manner of man he was . * But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty , and continues therein , he being not a forgetful hearer , but a doer of the work , this man shall be blessed in his deed . * If any man among you seem to be religious , and bridles not his tongue , but deceives his own heart , this man 's religion is vain . * 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 .

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