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1:1  James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion: Greetings.
1:2  Regard it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall-into various trials,
1:3  knowing that the testing of your faith is producing endurance.
1:4  And let endurance be having its complete work in order that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.
1:5  And if any of you is lacking wisdom, let him be asking from the God giving generously to all and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.
1:6  But let him be asking in faith, not doubting at all. For the one doubting is like a surge of the sea being blown-by-wind and tossed.
1:7  For let that person not be supposing that he will receive anything from the Lord—
1:8  a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
1:9  And let the lowly brother be boasting in his height,
1:10  and the rich one in his lowliness, because he will pass-away like a flower of grass.
1:11  For the sun rose with the burning-heat and dried-up the grass, and its flower fell-off and the beauty of its appearance perished. In this manner also the rich one will fade-away in his pursuits.
1:12  Blessed is the man who endures the trial, because having become approved, he will receive the crown of  life which He promised to the ones loving Him.
1:13  Let no one being tempted be saying that “I am being tempted by God”. For God is not-tempted by evils. And He Himself tempts no one,
1:14  but each one is tempted by his own desire while being drawn-away and enticed.
1:15  Then the desire, having conceived, gives-birth to sin. And the sin, having been fully-formed, brings-forth death.
1:16  Do not be deceived! My beloved brothers,
1:17  every good gift-giving and every perfect gift-given is from-above, coming down from the Father of lights, with Whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
1:18  Having willed it, He brought us forth by the word of truth so that we might be a kind-of firstfruit of His creatures.
1:19  You know this, my beloved brothers, but let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow into anger.
1:20  For the anger of a man does not produce the righteousness of God.
1:21  Therefore having laid-aside all filthiness and abundance of badness, receive with gentleness the implanted word being able to save your souls.
1:22  But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
1:23  Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one is like a man considering the face of his birth in a mirror.
1:24  For he considered himself and has gone-away and immediately forgot what-sort of man he was.
1:25  But the one having looked into the perfect law of liberty and having continued, not having become a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work— this one will be blessed in his doing.
1:26  If anyone thinks that he is religious while not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one is worthless.
1:27  This is pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father— to be looking-after orphans and widows in their affliction; to be keeping oneself unspotted by the world.