> [!title|noicon] **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. ^1
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; ^2
3 Knowing _this_, that the trying of your faith works patience. ^3
4 But let patience have _her_ perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. ^4
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all _men_ liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him. ^5
6 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. ^6
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. ^7
8 A double minded man _is_ unstable in all his ways. ^8
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: ^9
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. ^10
11 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. ^11
12 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. ^12
13 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: ^13
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. ^14
15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. ^15
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. ^16
17 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. ^17
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. ^18
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: ^19
20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God. ^20
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. ^21
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. ^22
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: ^23
24 For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was. ^24
25 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. ^25
26 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. ^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. ^27