James

James 1

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

2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.WBS — James 1:2

3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.WBS — James 1:3

4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.WBS — James 1:4

5 If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him.WBS — James 1:5

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.WBS — James 1:6

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.WBS — James 1:7

8 A man unsettled in his opinions is unstable in all his ways.WBS — James 1:8

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:WBS — James 1:9

10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.WBS — James 1:10

11 For the sun hath no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and its flower falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.WBS — James 1:11

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.WBS — James 1:12

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:WBS — James 1:13

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.WBS — James 1:14

15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.WBS — James 1:15

16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.WBS — James 1:16

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.WBS — James 1:17

18 Of his own will he hath begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.WBS — James 1:18

19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:WBS — James 1:19

20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.WBS — James 1:20

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.WBS — James 1:21

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.WBS — James 1:22

23 For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass:WBS — James 1:23

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and immediately forgetteth what manner of man he was.WBS — James 1:24

25 But he who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.WBS — James 1:25

26 If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.WBS — James 1:26

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.WBS — James 1:27