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1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
 twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
 temptations;
1:3 Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh
 patience.
1:4 But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be
 perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1:5 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.
1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
 wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and
 tossed.
1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing
 of the Lord.
1:8 A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.
1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower
 of the grass he shall pass away.
1:11 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.
1:12 Blessed [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.
1:13 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:
1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own
 lust, and enticed.
1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and
 sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
1:17 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.
1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we
 should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to
 hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
 naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
 which is able to save your souls.
1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
 deceiving your own selves.
1:23 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:
1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and
 straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
1:25 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.
1:26 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.
1:27 Pure 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.
2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
 [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons.
2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring,
 in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile
 raiment;
2:3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing,
 and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the
 poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges
 of evil thoughts?
2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor
 of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he
 hath promised to them that love him?
2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you,
 and draw you before the judgment seats?
2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are
 called?
2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou
 shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are
 convinced of the law as transgressors.
2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in
 one [point], he is guilty of all.
2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not
 kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou
 art become a transgressor of the law.
2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the
 law of liberty.
2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed
 no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
2:14 What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he
 hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily
 food,
2:16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye]
 warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those
 things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?
2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew
 me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith
 by my works.
2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the
 devils also believe, and tremble.
2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is
 dead?
2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had
 offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works
 was faith made perfect?
2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham
 believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness:
 and he was called the Friend of God.
2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not
 by faith only.
2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works,
 when she had received the messengers, and had sent [them] out
 another way?
2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
 without works is dead also.
3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall
 receive the greater condemnation.
3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in
 word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle
 the whole body.
3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may
 obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
3:4 Behold also the ships, which though [they be] so great, and
 [are] driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a
 very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great
 things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
3:6 And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the
 tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and
 setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of
 hell.
3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and
 of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full
 of deadly poison.
3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse
 we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My
 brethren, these things ought not so to be.
3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water]
 and bitter?
3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a
 vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and
 fresh.
3:13 Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
 let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness
 of wisdom.
3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
 glory not, and lie not against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly,
 sensual, devilish.
3:16 For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and
 every evil work.
3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
 peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy
 and good fruits, with