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1:1 James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the
 Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail!
1:2 All joy count [it], my brethren, when ye may fall into
 temptations manifold;
1:3 knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,
1:4 and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be
 perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;
1:5 and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who
 is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall
 be given to him;
1:6 and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is
 doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and
 tossed,
1:7 for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything
 from the Lord --
1:8 a two-souled man [is] unstable in all his ways.
1:9 And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation,
1:10 and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of
 grass he shall pass away;
1:11 for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither
 the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its
 appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade
 away!
1:12 Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming
 approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the
 Lord did promise to those loving Him.
1:13 Let no one say, being tempted -- `From God I am tempted,'
 for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,
1:14 and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away
 and enticed,
1:15 afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to
 sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth
 death.
1:16 Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;
1:17 every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above,
 coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no
 variation, or shadow of turning;
1:18 having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth,
 for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.
1:19 So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to
 hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
1:20 for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not
 work;
1:21 wherefore having put aside all filthiness and
 superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted
 word, that is able to save your souls;
1:22 and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
 deceiving yourselves,
1:23 because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer,
 this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a
 mirror,
1:24 for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and
 immediately he did forget of what kind he was;
1:25 and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of
 liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful
 hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy
 in his doing.
1:26 If any one doth think to be religious among you, not
 bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain
 [is] the religion;
1:27 religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is
 this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation --
 unspotted to keep himself from the world.
2:1 My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of
 the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,
2:2 for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold
 ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in
 vile raiment,
2:3 and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may
 say to him, `Thou -- sit thou here well,' and to the poor man
 may say, `Thou -- stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my
 footstool,' --
2:4 ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become
 ill-reasoning judges.
2:5 Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of
 this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He
 promised to those loving Him?
2:6 and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress
 you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;
2:7 do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was
 called upon you?
2:8 If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing,
 `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well;
2:9 and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by
 the law as transgressors;
2:10 for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in
 one [point], he hath become guilty of all;
2:11 for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,'
 said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not
 commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a
 transgressor of law;
2:12 so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be
 judged,
2:13 for the judgment without kindness [is] to him not having
 done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
2:14 What [is] the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may
 speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able
 to save him?
2:15 and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be
 destitute of the daily food,
2:16 and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be
 warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things
 needful for the body, what [is] the profit?
2:17 so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by
 itself.
2:18 But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works,
 shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of
 my works my faith:
2:19 thou -- thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well,
 and the demons believe, and they shudder!
2:20 And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith
 apart from the works is dead?
2:21 Abraham our father -- was not he declared righteous out of
 works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?
2:22 dost thou see that the faith was working with his works,
 and out of the works the faith was perfected?
2:23 and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham
 did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to
 righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.
2:24 Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous,
 and not out of faith only;
2:25 and in like manner also Rahab the harlot -- was she not out
 of works declared righteous, having received the messengers,
 and by another way having sent forth?
2:26 for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the
 faith apart from the works is dead.
3:1 Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that
 greater judgment we shall receive,
3:2 for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not
 stumble, this one [is] a perfect man, able to bridle also the
 whole body;
3:3 lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their
 obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;
3:4 lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds
 being driven, are led about by a very small helm,
 whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,
3:5 so also the tongue is a little member, and doth boast
 greatly; lo, a little fire how much wood it doth kindle!
3:6 and the tongue [is] a fire, the world of the
 unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is
 spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of
 nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.
3:7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of
 creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath
 been subdued, by the human nature,
3:8 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, [it is] an
 unruly evil, full of deadly poison,
3:9 with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do
 curse the men made according to the similitude of God;
3:10 out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing;
 it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;
3:11 doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the
 sweet and the bitter?
3:12 is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine
 figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water [is able] to make.
3:13 Who [is] wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out
 of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,
3:14 and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart,
 glory not, nor lie against the truth;