James 1
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
James, the servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting.
2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations;
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations.
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.
Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.
But if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all cheerfully and upbraids none; and it will be given unto him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
But let him ask in faith, doubting as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
the double-minded man, the most unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
But let the humble brother boast in his exaltation:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it wither the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
For the sun with a scorching wind has risen, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its countenance perished: so indeed the rich man will pass away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.
Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God can not be tempted with evils, and he tempts no one:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
but each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out, and enticed.
15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
Then the lust, conceiving, brings forth sin; and sin, having been perfected, produces death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.
Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no ficklenss, neither shadow of turning.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.
18 Of his own will fathered he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be some first fruit of his creations.
19 Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath:
20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
21 Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Therefore having laid aside all filthiness and excess of evil, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:
24 For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.
for he recognized himself, and has gone away, and immediately forgot what kind he was.
25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy in his work.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.
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.
Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.
