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.