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1:1 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;
1:3 Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh
 patience.
1:4 But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be
 perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1:5 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.
1:6 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.
1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing
 of the Lord.
1:8 A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.
1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower
 of the grass he shall pass away.
1:11 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.
1:12 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.
1:13 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:
1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own
 lust, and enticed.
1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and
 sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
1:17 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.
1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we
 should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to
 hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
 naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
 which is able to save your souls.
1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
 deceiving your own selves.
1:23 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:
1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and
 straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
1:25 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.
1:26 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.
1:27 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.
2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
 [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons.
2:2 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;
2:3 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:
2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges
 of evil thoughts?
2:5 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?
2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you,
 and draw you before the judgment seats?
2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are
 called?
2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou
 shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are
 convinced of the law as transgressors.
2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in
 one [point], he is guilty of all.
2:11 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.
2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the
 law of liberty.
2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed
 no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
2:14 What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he
 hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily
 food,
2:16 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?
2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
2:18 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.
2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the
 devils also believe, and tremble.
2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is
 dead?
2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had
 offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works
 was faith made perfect?
2:23 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.
2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not
 by faith only.
2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works,
 when she had received the messengers, and had sent [them] out
 another way?
2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
 without works is dead also.
3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall
 receive the greater condemnation.
3:2 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.
3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may
 obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
3:4 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.
3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great
 things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
3:6 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.
3:7 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:
3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full
 of deadly poison.
3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse
 we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My
 brethren, these things ought not so to be.
3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water]
 and bitter?
3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a
 vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and
 fresh.
3:13 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.
3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
 glory not, and lie not against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly,
 sensual, devilish.
3:16 For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and
 every evil work.
3:17 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.
3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them
 that make peace.
4:1 From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they]
 not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
4:2 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.
4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
 consume [it] upon your lusts.
4:4 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.
4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit
 that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth
 the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he
 will flee from you.
4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse
 [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye]
 double minded.
4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be
 turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall
 lift you up.
4:11 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.
4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy:
 who art thou that judgest another?
4:13 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:
4:14 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.
4:15 For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall
 live, and do this, or that.
4:16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is
 evil.
4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it]
 not, to him it is sin.
5:1 Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries
 that shall come upon [you].
5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
5:3 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.
5:4 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.
5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye
 have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
5:6 Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not
 resist you.
5:7 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.
5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of
 the Lord draweth nigh.
5:9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be
 condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the
 name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and
 of patience.
5:11 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.
5:12 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.
5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let
 him sing psalms.
5:14 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:
5:15 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.
5:16 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.
5:17 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.
5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the
 earth brought forth her fruit.
5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one
 convert him;
5:20 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.