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James - ch 1 v 1 - 20
- James the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
- My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations;
- Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
- And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.
- But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men abundantly, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
- But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.
- Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
- A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.
- But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:
- And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.
- For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.
- Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.
- But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.
- Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.
- Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.
- Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.
- For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.
- You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.
- For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.
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