engDRA: James 1

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 [1] James the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.  [2] My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations;  [3] Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.  [4] And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.  [5] But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men abundantly, 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, which is moved and carried about by the wind.  [7] Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.  [8] A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.  [9] But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:  [10] And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.  [11] For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.  [12] Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.  [13] Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.  [14] But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.  [15] Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.  [16] Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.  [17] Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.  [18] For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.  [19] You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.  [20] For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.  [21] Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted 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 a man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.  [24] For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was.  [25] But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.  [26] And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.  [27] Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one’s self unspotted from this world.

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