James

James 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes (Matthew 19:28; Acts 26:7; Revelation 7:4; Revelation 21:12) which are scattered abroad, greeting.KJRV — James 1:1

2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;KJRV — James 1:2

3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.KJRV — James 1:3

4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.KJRV — James 1:4

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.KJRV — James 1:5

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth (Matthew 14:31) is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.KJRV — James 1:6

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.KJRV — James 1:7

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.KJRV — James 1:8

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:KJRV — James 1:9

10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass (Matthew 6:30; Luke 12:28) he shall pass away.KJRV — James 1:10

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.KJRV — James 1:11

12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown (1 Corinthians 9:25; Revelation 2:10) of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.KJRV — James 1:12

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:KJRV — James 1:13

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, (2 Samuel 11:2; Job 31:1; Matthew 5:28) and enticed.KJRV — James 1:14

15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.KJRV — James 1:15

16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.KJRV — James 1:16

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.KJRV — James 1:17

18 Of his own will begat (1 Corinthians 4:15) he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits (Exodus 4:22; Jeremiah 31:9; Hosea 11:1; 2 Corinthians 6:18) of his creatures.KJRV — James 1:18

19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:KJRV — James 1:19

20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.KJRV — James 1:20

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.KJRV — James 1:21

22 But be ye doers (Matthew 7:21; Romans 2:13) of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.KJRV — James 1:22

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:KJRV — James 1:23

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.KJRV — James 1:24

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.KJRV — James 1:25

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.KJRV — James 1:26

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, (Isaiah 58:7; Ezekiel 18:7; Matthew 25:35; 2 Timothy 1:16) and to keep himself unspotted from the world.KJRV — James 1:27