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1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations;
3 knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and whole, lacking nothing.
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all people liberally, and without suffering reproach; and it shall be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from 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, then it withers the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of its fashion perishes: So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: For when he is approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God": For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither does He tempt any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: And sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.
18 Of His own will He begot us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures.
19 Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.
21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and superabundance of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:
24 For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what sort of man he was.
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.