Murdock Translation
1852 by James Murdock

James Chapter 1

Jam 1:1 JAMES, a servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; to the twelve tribes dispersed among the Gentiles; greeting [peace].
Jam 1:2 Let it be all joy to you, my brethren, when ye enter into many and various trials.
Jam 1:3 For ye know, that the trial of [your] faith, maketh you possess patience.
Jam 1:4 And let patience have its perfect work, so that ye may be complete and perfect, and may lack nothing.
Jam 1:5 And if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask [it] of God, who giveth to all freely, and reproacheth not; and it will be given him.
Jam 1:6 But let him ask in faith, not hesitating: he who hesitateth is like the waves of the sea, which the wind agitateth.
Jam 1:7 And let not that man expect to receive any thing of the Lord,
Jam 1:8 who is hesitating in his mind, and unstable in all his ways.
Jam 1:9 And let the depressed brother rejoice, in his elevation;
Jam 1:10 and the rich, in his depression; because, like the flower of an herb, so he passeth away.
Jam 1:11 For the sun riseth in its heat, and drieth up the herb; and its flower falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth: so also the rich man withereth in his ways.
Jam 1:12 Blessed is the man who endureth temptations; so that when he is proved he may receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.
Jam 1:13 Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted with evils, nor doth he tempt any man.
Jam 1:14 But every man is tempted by his own lust; and he lusteth, and is drawn away.
Jam 1:15 And this [his] lust conceiveth, and bringeth forth sin; and sin, when mature, bringeth forth death.
Jam 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Jam 1:17 Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no mutation, not even the shadow of change.
Jam 1:18 He saw fit, and begat us by the word of truth; that we might be the first-fruits of his creatures.
Jam 1:19 And be ye, my beloved brethren, every one of you, swift to hear, and slow to speak; and slow to wrath:
Jam 1:20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Jam 1:21 Wherefore, remove far from you all impurity, and the abundance of wickedness; and, with meekness, receive the word that is implanted in our nature, which is able to vivify these your souls.
Jam 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only; and do not deceive yourselves.
Jam 1:23 For if any man shall be a hearer of the word, and not a doer of it, he will be like one who seeth his face in a mirror:
Jam 1:24 for he seeth himself, and passeth on, and forgetteth what a man he was.
Jam 1:25 But every one that looketh upon the perfect law of liberty and abideth in it, is not a hearer of something to be forgotten, but a doer of the things; and he will be blessed in his work.
Jam 1:26 And if any one thinketh that he worshippeth God, and doth not restrain his tongue, but his heart deceiveth him; his worship is vain.
Jam 1:27 For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world.