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 our Lord Jesus the Messiah; to the twelve tribes dispersed among the Gentiles; greeting peace.
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
Let it be all joy to you, my brethren, when ye enter into many and various trials.
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
For ye know, that the trial of your faith, maketh you possess patience.
4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
And let patience have its perfect work, so that ye may be complete and perfect, and may lack 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.
And if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all freely, and reproacheth not; and it will 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, not hesitating: he who hesitateth is like the waves of the sea, which the wind agitateth.
7 For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
And let not that man expect to receive any thing of the Lord,
8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
who is hesitating in his mind, and unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
And let the depressed brother 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.
and the rich, in his depression; because, like the flower of an herb, so he passeth 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 riseth in its heat, and drieth up the herb; and its flower falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth: so also the rich man withereth in his ways.
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 endureth temptations; so that when he is proved he may receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that 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 one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted with evils, nor doth he tempt any man.
14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
But every man is tempted by his own lust; and he lusteth, and is drawn away.
15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
And this his lust conceiveth, and bringeth forth sin; and sin, when mature, bringeth forth death.
16 Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Do not err, 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 and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no mutation, not even the 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.
He saw fit, and begat us by the word of truth; that we might be the first-fruits of his creatures.
19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
And be ye, my beloved brethren, every one of you, swift to hear, and slow to speak; and 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, remove far from you all impurity, and the abundance of wickedness; and, with meekness, receive the word that is implanted in our nature, which is able to vivify these 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; and do not deceive yourselves.
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 shall be a hearer of the word, and not a doer of it, he will be like one who seeth his face in a mirror:
24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
for he seeth himself, and passeth on, and forgetteth what a man 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 every one that looketh upon the perfect law of liberty and abideth in it, is not a hearer of something to be forgotten, but a doer of the things; and he will be blessed in his work.
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.
And if any one thinketh that he worshippeth God, and doth not restrain his tongue, but his heart deceiveth him; his worship 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.
For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world.
