Living Oracles
1835 by Alexander Campbell

James Chapter 1

Jam 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Health.
Jam 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into diverse trials;
Jam 1:3 knowing that the proof of your faith works out patience.
Jam 1:4 Let patience, therefore, have a perfect effect, that you may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.
Jam 1:5 If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask it of God: who gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not, and it shall be given to him.
Jam 1:6 But let him ask in faith, being not at all irresolute: for he who is irresolute, is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
Jam 1:7 Now let not that man think, that he shall receive anything from the Lord.
Jam 1:8 A man of two minds, is unstable in all his ways.
Jam 1:9 Moreover, let the brother of humble condition glory in his exaltation,
Jam 1:10 and the rich in his humiliation; for as a garden flower he shall pass away.––
Jam 1:11 For the sun rises with a burning heat, and withers the herb, and its flower falls down, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also shall the rich man fade in his ways.
Jam 1:12 Blessed is the man who sustains trial, for becoming an approved person, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them who love him.
Jam 1:13 Let no one who is tempted say, Certainly I am tempted by God: for God is incapable of being tempted by evil things, and he tempts no one.
Jam 1:14 But every one is tempted, when he is drawn away, and enticed by his own lust:
Jam 1:15 then lust having conceived, brings forth sin, and sin, being perfected, brings forth death.
Jam 1:16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren;
Jam 1:17 every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descended from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.
Jam 1:18 Of his own will, he begot us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of fruits of his creatures.
Jam 1:19 Wherefore, 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 out the righteousness of God.
Jam 1:21 Wherefore, putting away all filthiness, and overflowing of maliciousness, embrace with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jam 1:22 And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning.
Jam 1:23 For if any one be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man who views his natural face in a mirror;
Jam 1:24 for he who looks at himself and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was.
Jam 1:25 But he who looks narrowly into the perfect law of liberty, and perseveres, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of its work, shall, in so doing, be happy.
Jam 1:26 If any one among you think to be religious, who bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, the religion of this person is vain.
Jam 1:27 Pure religion, and undefiled, with God, even the Father, is this: To take care of orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one’s self unspotted from the world.