Etheridge Translation
1849 by John Etheridge

James Chapter 1

Jam 1:1 JAKUB, a servant of Aloha and of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, unto the twelve tribes who are dispersed among the nations: Peace.
Jam 1:2 All joy shall be to you, my brethren, when you shall have entered into temptations many and various.
Jam 1:3 For you know that the proving of faith maketh you to possess patience;
Jam 1:4 but to patience let there be a perfect work, that you may be complete and perfected, and in nothing be deficient.
Jam 1:5 If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask of Aloha, who giveth to all expansively, and upbraideth not, and it is given to him.
Jam 1:6 But let him ask in faith, not wavering. For he who wavereth is like the waves of the sea which the wind disturbeth.
Jam 1:7 And let not that man expect to receive any thing from the Lord,
Jam 1:8 who is divided in his mind, and disturbed in all his ways.
Jam 1:9 But let the humble brother glory in his exaltation,
Jam 1:10 and the rich in his humility; for as the flower of an herb, so he passeth.
Jam 1:11 For the sun ariseth in his heat, and drieth the herb, and the flower of it falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth; so also the rich withereth in his reverses.
Jam 1:12 Blessed the man who endureth temptations: for when he hath been proved he shall receive the crown of life, which Aloha hath promised unto them who love him.
Jam 1:13 Let no man say, when he is tempted, From Aloha I am tempted; for Aloha is not tempted with evils, and he no man tempteth.
Jam 1:14 But each man from his concupiscence tempteth himself, and desireth, and is drawn away.
Jam 1:15 And this desire conceiveth and beareth sin; and sin, when it is perfected, beareth death.
Jam 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren;
Jam 1:17 every good gift and perfect from above descendeth, from the Father of lights, with whom is no alteration, nor the shadow of vicissitude.
Jam 1:18 He willed, and begat us by the word of truth, that we might be the first-ones of his creatures.
Jam 1:19 And you, my beloved brethren, let every one of you be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and slow to be angry;
Jam 1:20 for the wrath of man the righteousness of Aloha worketh not.
Jam 1:21 Wherefore, remove from you all impurity and the abounding of wickedness, and with meekness receive the word which is engrafted in our nature, which is able to save your souls.
Jam 1:22 BUT be doers of the word, and not hearers only, neither deceive yourselves.
Jam 1:23 For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer of it, this (man) is like one who vieweth his face in a mirror;
Jam 1:24 for he seeth himself and passeth, and hath forgotten what (manner of person) he was.
Jam 1:25 But every one who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he is not a hearer of the hearing of forgetfulness, but a doer of works; and this shall be blessed in his work.
Jam 1:26 And if a man thinketh that he serveth Aloha, and holdeth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, of this man his service is vain.
Jam 1:27 For the service which is pure and true before Aloha the Father, is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their afflictions, and that a man keep himself from the world without blemish.