The New Testament
of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
1865 by American Bible Union

James Chapter 1

Jam 1:1 JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Jam 1:2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations;
Jam 1:3 knowing that the proving of your faith works patience.
Jam 1:4 But let patience have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
Jam 1:5 But if any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally, and upbraids not, and it will be given him.
Jam 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering; for he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
Jam 1:7 For let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord;
Jam 1:8 a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Jam 1:9 Let the brother of low degree glory in that he is exalted;
Jam 1:10 but the rich, in that he is made low; because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
Jam 1:11 For the sun rose with the burning heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and the grace of its fashion perished; so also will the rich man fade away in his ways.
Jam 1:12 Happy is the man that endures temptation; because, when he is approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to those who love him.
Jam 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God; for God can not be tempted with evil, and himself tempts no one.
Jam 1:14 But each one is tempted, when by his own lust he is drawn away and enticed.
Jam 1:15 Then lust, having conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when completed, brings forth death.
Jam 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Jam 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variableness, or shadow of turning.
Jam 1:18 Of his own will he begot us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
Jam 1:19 So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
Jam 1:20 for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
Jam 1:21 Wherefore, putting off all filthiness and excess of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jam 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Jam 1:23 For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a mirror.
Jam 1:24 For he beheld himself, and has gone away; and immediately he forgot what manner of man he was.
Jam 1:25 But he who looked into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and remained thereby, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, this man shall be happy in his doing.
Jam 1:26 If any one thinks that he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Jam 1:27 Religion, pure and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: To visit the orphans and widows in their affliction; to keep himself unspotted from the world.