James 1
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are dispersed, greeting.
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into various trials;
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
knowing that the proof of your faith produceth patience.
4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
But let patience have its work perfected, that ye may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
But if any man of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
But let him ask in faith, harbouring no doubt: for he who is doubtful is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind, and in constant agitation.
7 For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.
8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
A double-minded man is unsteady in all his ways.
9 Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
Let the brother low in station rejoice in his elevation:
10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
but the rich, in his abasement: for as the flower of grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
For the sun arose with fervour, and burnt up the grass, and the flower of it fell off, and the beauty of its appearance was lost: just so the rich man in his course of life shall wither away.
12 Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.
Blessed is the man who patiently supports temptation: for when he is proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to those who love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Let no man under temptation say, I am tempted of God: for God is incapable of temptation from evils, and he tempteth no man:
14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
but every person is tempted, when by his own peculiar passion he is born away, and ensnared.
15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
Then passion impregnated, bringeth forth sin, and sin reaching its consummation, bringeth forth death.
16 Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descending from the father of illuminations, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of change.
18 Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Of his own choice he produced us by the word of truth, that we might be a sort of first fruit of his creatures.―
19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
20 for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Wherefore laying aside all vicious pollution, and the abundance of iniquity, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which hath power to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
For if any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man that looks at his natural face in a glass;
24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
for he beheld himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what sort of person he was.
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
But he that looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and perseveres, this man not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his practice.
26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
If any man thinks he is a religious character among you, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, To pay diligent attention to the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to preserve himself spotless from the world.
