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1:1  James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings.
1:2  Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials,
1:3  knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
1:4  And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
1:5  But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
1:6  But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
1:7  For that person ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
1:8  being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
1:9  Now the brother or sister of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;
1:10  but the rich person is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.
1:11  For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so also the rich person, in the midst of his pursuits, will die out.
1:12  Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
1:13  No one is to say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
1:14  But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.
1:15  Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it has run its course, brings forth death.
1:16  Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters.
1:17  Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.
1:18  In the exercise of His will He gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
1:19  You know this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Now everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
1:20  for a man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness of God.
1:21  Therefore, ridding yourselves of all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.
1:22  But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers who deceive themselves.
1:23  For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
1:24  for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.
1:25  But one who has looked intently at the perfect law, the law of freedom, and has continued in it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an active doer, this person will be blessed in what he does.
1:26  If anyone thinks himself to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
1:27  Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.