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BOOK 59

 BOOK OF JAMES

CHAPTER 1
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.

CHAPTER 2
1 My brethren, have not the
faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Lord of glory, with respect of
persons.
2 For if there come unto your
assembly a man with a gold ring, in
goodly apparel, and there come in
also a poor man in vile raiment;
3 And ye have respect to him
that weareth the gay clothing, and
say unto him, Sit thou here in a good
place; and say to the poor, Stand
thou there, or sit here under my
footstool:
4 Are ye not then partial in
yourselves, and are become judges of
evil thoughts?
5 Hearken, my beloved brethren,
Hath not God chosen the poor of this
world rich in faith, and heirs of the
kingdom which he hath promised to
them that love him?
6 But ye have despised the poor.
Do not rich men oppress you, and draw
you before the judgment seats?
7 Do not they blaspheme that
worthy name by the which ye are
called?
8 If ye fulfil the royal law
according to the scripture, Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,
ye do well:
9 But if ye have respect to
persons, ye commit sin, and are
convinced of the law as
transgressors.
10 For whosoever shall keep the
whole law, and yet offend in one
point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, Do not
commit adultery, said also, Do not
kill. Now if thou commit no adultery,
yet if thou kill, thou art become a
transgressor of the law.
12 So speak ye, and so do, as
they that shall be judged by the law
of liberty.
13 For he shall have judgment
without mercy, that hath shewed no
mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against
judgment.
14 What doth it profit, my
brethren, though a man say he hath
faith, and have not works? can faith
save him?
15 If a brother or sister be
naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you say unto them,
Depart in peace, be ye warmed and
filled; notwithstanding ye give them
not those things which are needful to
the body; what doth it profit?
17 Even so faith, if it hath not
works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast
faith, and I have works: shew me thy
faith without thy works, and I will
shew thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that there is
one God; thou doest well: the devils
also believe, and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain
man, that faith without works is
dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father
justified by works, when he had
offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Seest thou how faith wrought
with his works, and by works was
faith made perfect?
23 And the scripture was
fulfilled which saith, Abraham
believed God, and it was imputed unto
him for righteousness: and he was
called the Friend of God.
24 Ye see then how that by works
a man is justified, and not by faith
only.
25 Likewise also was not Rahab
the harlot justified by works, when
she had received the messengers, and
had sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the
spirit is dead, so faith without
works is dead also.

CHAPTER 3
1 My brethren, be not many
masters, knowing that we shall
receive the greater condemnation.
2 For in many things we offend
all. If any man offend not in word,
the same is a perfect man, and able
also to bridle the whole body.
3 Behold, we put bits in the
horses'mouths, that they may obey us;
and we turn about their whole body.
4 Behold also the ships, which
though they be so great, and are
driven of fierce winds, yet are they
turned about with a very small helm,
whithersoever the governor listeth.
5 Even so the tongue is a little
member, and boasteth great things.
Behold, how great a matter a little
fire kindleth!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a
world of iniquity: so is the tongue
among our members, that it defileth
the whole body, and setteth on fire
the course of nature; and it is set
on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and
of birds, and of serpents, and of
things in the sea, is tamed, and hath
been tamed of mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man
tame; it is an unruly evil, full of
deadly poison.
9 Therewith bless we God, even
the Father; and therewith curse we
men, which are made after the
similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth
proceedeth blessing and cursing. My
brethren, these things ought not so
to be.
11 Doth a fountain send forth at
the same place sweet water and
bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my
brethren, bear olive berries? either
a vine, figs? so can no fountain both
yield salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise man and endued
with knowledge among you? let him
shew out of a good conversation his
works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying
and strife in your hearts, glory not,
and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not
from above, but is earthly, sensual,
devilish.
16 For where envying and strife
is, there is confusion and every evil
work.
17 But the wisdom that is from
above is first pure, then peaceable,
gentle, and easy to be intreated,
full of mercy and good fruits,
without partiality, and without
hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of
righteousness is sown in peace of
them that make peace.

CHAPTER 4
1 From whence come wars and
fightings among you? come they not
hence, even of your lusts that war in
your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye
kill, and desire to have, and cannot
obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have
not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not,
because ye ask amiss, that ye may
consume it upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and
adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity
with God? whosoever therefore will be
a friend of the world is the enemy of
God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture
saith in vain, The spirit that
dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace.
Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the
proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to
God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will
draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands,
ye sinners; and purify your hearts,
ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and
weep: let your laughter be turned to
mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the
sight of the Lord, and he shall lift
you up.
11 Speak not evil one of
another, brethren. He that speaketh
evil of his brother, and judgeth his
brother, speaketh evil of the law,
and judgeth the law: but if thou
judge the law, thou art not a doer of
the law, but a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is
able to save and to destroy: who art
thou that judgest another?
13 Go to now, ye that say, To
day or to morrow we will go into such
a city, and continue there a year,
and buy and sell, and get gain:
14 Whereas ye know not what
shall be on the morrow. For what is
your life? It is even a vapour, that
appeareth for a little time, and then
vanisheth away.
15 For that ye ought to say, If
the Lord will, we shall live, and do
this, or that.
16 But now ye rejoice in your
boastings: all such rejoicing is
evil.
17 Therefore to him that knoweth
to do good, and doeth it not, to him
it is sin.

CHAPTER 5
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep
and howl for your miseries that shall
come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and
your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is
cankered; and the rust of them shall
be a witness against you, and shall
eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye
have heaped treasure together for the
last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the
labourers who have reaped down your
fields, which is of you kept back by
fraud, crieth: and the cries of them
which have reaped are entered into
the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on
the earth, and been wanton; ye have
nourished your hearts, as in a day of
slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed
the just; and he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore,
brethren, unto the coming of the
Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth
for the precious fruit of the earth,
and hath long patience for it, until
he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be ye also patient; stablish
your hearts: for the coming of the
Lord draweth nigh.
9 Grudge not one against
another, brethren, lest ye be
condemned: behold, the judge standeth
before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, the
prophets, who have spoken in the name
of the Lord, for an example of
suffering affliction, and of
patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy
which endure. Ye have heard of the
patience of Job, and have seen the
end of the Lord; that the Lord is
very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my
brethren, swear not, neither by
heaven, neither by the earth, neither
by any other oath: but let your yea
be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye
fall into condemnation.
13 Is any among you afflicted?
let him pray. Is any merry? let him
sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let
him call for the elders of the
church; and let them pray over him,
anointing him with oil in the name of
the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall
save the sick, and the Lord shall
raise him up; and if he have
committed sins, they shall be
forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to
another, and pray one for another,
that ye may be healed. The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to
like passions as we are, and he
prayed earnestly that it might not
rain: and it rained not on the earth
by the space of three years and six
months.
18 And he prayed again, and the
heaven gave rain, and the earth
brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do
err from the truth, and one convert
him;
20 Let him know, that he which
converteth the sinner from the error
of his way shall save a soul from
death, and shall hide a multitude of
sins.