{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/jam001.htm","path":"bib/kjv/jam001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/jam001.htm","text":"1\u00a0James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.\n \n2\u00a0My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;\n \n3\u00a0Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.\n \n4\u00a0But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.\n \n5\u00a0If 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.\n \n6\u00a0But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.\n \n7\u00a0For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.\n \n8\u00a0A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.\n \n9\u00a0Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:\n \n10\u00a0But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.\n \n11\u00a0For 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.\n \n12\u00a0Blessed 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.\n \n13\u00a0Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:\n \n14\u00a0But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.\n \n15\u00a0Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.\n \n16\u00a0Do not err, my beloved brethren.\n \n17\u00a0Every 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.\n \n18\u00a0Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.\n \n19\u00a0Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:\n \n20\u00a0For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.\n \n21\u00a0Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.\n \n22\u00a0But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.\n \n23\u00a0For 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:\n \n24\u00a0For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.\n \n25\u00a0But 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.\n \n26\u00a0If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.\n \n27\u00a0Pure 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.","title":"King James Version: James: James Chapter 1","type":"page"}