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1:1  James, the servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes which are scattered here and there.
1:2  My brethren, count it exceeding joy when you fall into various trials,
1:3  seeing as you know that the trying of your faith brings patience.
1:4  And let patience have her perfect work, so that you may be perfect and sound, lacking nothing.
1:5  If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all impartially, and casts no man in the teeth, and it shall be given him.
1:6  But let him ask in faith, and waver not. For he who doubts is like the waves of the sea, tossed with the wind and carried about.
1:7  Neither let that person think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
1:8  A wavering-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
1:9  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,
1:10  and the rich in that he is made low. For like the flower of the grass, he will vanish away.
1:11  The sun rises with heat, and the grass withers, and its flower falls away, and the beauty of the appearance of it perishes; even so shall the rich man perish with his abundance.
1:12  Happy is the man who endures in temptation, for when he is proved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love him.
1:13  Let no one say when he is tempted, that he is tempted by God. For God tempts not to evil, nor does he tempt anyone,
1:14  but every person is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own fleshly nature and evil desire.
1:15  Then when desire has conceived, she brings forth sin, and sin when it is full-grown brings forth death.
1:16  Do not be mistaken, my dear brethren.
1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of light, with whom is no variableness nor turning to darkness.
1:18  Of his own will he begat us with the word of life, that we should be the first fruits of his creatures.
1:19  Therefore, dear brethren, let everyone be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
1:20  For the wrath of man does not work that which is righteous before God.
1:21  Therefore lay apart all uncleanness, and all lingering evil and vice, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls.
1:22  And see that you be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves with sophistry.
1:23  For if anyone hears the word and does it not, he is like a man that looks at his bodily face in a mirror.
1:24  For as soon as he has looked at himself, he goes his way and forgets immediately what his appearance was.
1:25  But whoever looks in the perfect law of liberty and continues in it (if he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work), this one shall be happy in his deed.
1:26  If anyone among you seems devout, yet refrains not his tongue, but betrays his own heart into mischief, this one’s devotion is in vain.
1:27  Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their adversity, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.