Noyes Translation
1869 by George Noyes

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 trying of your faith worketh endurance.
Jam 1:4 But let endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting in nothing.
Jam 1:5 But if any one of you is wanting in wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.
Jam 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
Jam 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord,
Jam 1:8 a double–minded man as he is, 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 its burning heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also will the rich man fade away in his ways.
Jam 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to them that love him.
Jam 1:13 Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted by God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he tempteth no one.
Jam 1:14 But each one is tempted when by his own lust he is led away and enticed;
Jam 1:15 then lust, having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when completed, bringeth 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 is no change, nor shadow from 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 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 worketh not the righteousness of God.
Jam 1:21 Wherefore put off all filthiness, and excess of wickedness, and 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 a man beholding his natural face in a glass;
Jam 1:24 for he beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.
Jam 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, and remains there, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deed.
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 Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one’s self unspotted from the world.