1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.G2385G1401G2316G2532G2962G2424G5547G1427G5443G1722G1290G54632My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; / temptations: or, trialsG3450G80G2233G3956G5479G3752G4045G4164G39863Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.G1097G3754G1383G5216G4102G2716G52814But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.G1161G2192G5281G2192G5046G2041G2443G5600G5046G2532G3648G3007G1722G33675 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.G1161G1536G5216G3007G4678G154G3844G2316G1325G3956G574G2532G3679G3361G2532G1325G8466But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.G1161G154G1722G4102G3367G1252G1063G1252G1503G2830G2281G416G2532G44947For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.G1063G3633G3361G1565G444G3633G3754G2983G5100G3844G29628A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.G1374G435G182G1722G3956G846G35989 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: / rejoice: or, glory / rejoice: or, gloryG1161G2744G80G5011G2744G1722G846G531110But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.G1161G4145G1722G846G5014G3754G5613G438G5528G392811For 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.G1063G2246G393G4862G2742G2532G3583G5528G2532G438G846G1601G2532G2143G4383G846G622G3779G2532G3133G4145G3133G1722G846G419712Blessed 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.G3107G435G3739G5278G3986G3754G1384G1096G2983G4735G2222G3739G2962G1861G25G84613Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: / evil: or, evilsG3004G3367G3004G3985G3754G3985G575G2316G1063G2316G551G2076G2556G1161G3985G846G3985G376214But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.G1161G1538G3985G1828G5259G2398G1939G2532G118515Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.G1534G1939G4815G5088G266G1161G266G658G616G228816Do not err, my beloved brethren.G4105G3361G4105G3450G27G8017Every 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.G3956G18G1394G2532G3956G5046G1434G2076G509G2597G575G3962G5457G3844G3739G1762G3756G3883G2228G644G515718Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.G1014G616G2248G3056G225G1519G2248G1511G5100G536G846G293819Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:G5620G3450G27G80G2077G3956G444G2077G5036G1519G191G1021G1519G2980G1021G1519G370920For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.G1063G3709G435G2716G3756G1343G231621Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.G1352G659G3956G4507G2532G4050G2549G1209G1722G4240G1721G3056G3588G1410G4982G5216G559022But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.G1161G1096G4163G3056G2532G3361G202G3440G3884G143823For 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:G3754G1536G2076G202G3056G2532G3756G4163G3778G1503G435G2657G846G1078G4383G1722G207224For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.G1063G2657G1438G2532G565G2532G2112G1950G3697G225825But 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. / deed: or, doingG1161G3879G1519G5046G3551G1657G2532G3887G3778G1096G3756G1953G202G235G4163G2041G3778G2071G3107G1722G846G416226If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.G1536G1722G5213G1380G1511G2357G5468G3361G846G1100G235G538G846G2588G5127G2356G315227Pure 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.G2513G2356G2532G283G3844G2316G2532G3962G2076G3778G1980G3737G2532G5503G1722G846G2347G5083G1438G784G575G2889