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title: James 1
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**1 **James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

**2 **My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; **3 **Knowing *this*, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. **4 **But let patience have *her* perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

**5 **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. **6 **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. **7 **For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. **8 **A double minded man *is* unstable in all his ways.

**9 **Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: **10 **But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. **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.

**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.

**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: **14 **But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. **15 **Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. **16 **Do not err, my beloved brethren. **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. **18 **Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

**19 **Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: **20 **For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. **21 **Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. **22 **But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. **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: **24 **For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. **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.

**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. **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.