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James - ch 1 v 1 - 20
- James, bondman of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the dispersion, greeting.
- Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,
- knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.
- But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
- But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:
- but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about;
- for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord;
- he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
- But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation,
- and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass's flower he will pass away.
- For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.
- Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.
- Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one.
- But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;
- then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.
- Do not err, my beloved brethren.
- Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning.
- According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.
- So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
- for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.
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