59_JAM_01_01 James , A servant of God And of the LORD Jesus Christ , to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad , greeting .
59_JAM_01_02 my brethren , count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations ;
59_JAM_01_03 knowing [ this ] , that the trying of your faith worketh patience .
59_JAM_01_04 but let patience have [ her ] perfect work , that ye may be perfect And entire , wanting nothing .
59_JAM_01_05 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 .
59_JAM_01_06 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 .
59_JAM_01_07 for let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD .
59_JAM_01_08 A double minded man [ Is ] unstable in all his ways .
59_JAM_01_09 let the brother of low degree Rejoice in that he Is exalted :
59_JAM_01_10 but the rich , in that he Is made low : because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away .
59_JAM_01_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 .
59_JAM_01_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 .
59_JAM_01_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 :
59_JAM_01_14 but every man Is tempted , when he Is drawn away of his own lust , And enticed .
59_JAM_01_15 Then when lust hath conceived , it bringeth forth sin : And sin , when it Is finished , bringeth forth death .
59_JAM_01_16 do not err , my beloved brethren .
59_JAM_01_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 .
59_JAM_01_18 of his own will begat he us with the word of truth , that we should be A kind of firstfruits of his creatures .
59_JAM_01_19 Wherefore , my beloved brethren , let every man be swift to hear , slow to speak , slow to wrath :
59_JAM_01_20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God .
59_JAM_01_21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness And superfluity of naughtiness , And receive with meekness the engrafted word , which Is able to save your souls .
59_JAM_01_22 but be ye doers of the word , And not hearers only , deceiving your own selves .
59_JAM_01_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 :
59_JAM_01_24 for he beholdeth himself , And goeth his way , And straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was .
59_JAM_01_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 .
59_JAM_01_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 .
59_JAM_01_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 .