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