The New Testament
Translated from the Original Greek
1858 by Leicester Sawyer

James Chapter 1

Jam 1:1 JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, greeting.
Jam 1:2 Account it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials,
Jam 1:3 knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.
Jam 1:4 But let patience have a perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
Jam 1:5 And if any one of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and upbraids not, and it shall be given him.
Jam 1:6 But let him ask in faith, not doubting; for he that doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and agitated.
Jam 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord,
Jam 1:8 a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Jam 1:9 But let the brother that is humble rejoice in his exaltation,
Jam 1:10 and the rich in his humiliation, for he shall pass away like a flower of the grass.
Jam 1:11 For the sun rose hot, and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also shall the rich man perish in his ways.
Jam 1:12 Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
Jam 1:13 Let no tempted one say, I am tempted by God; for God is not subject to temptation by evils, and he tempts no one.
Jam 1:14 But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his desires, and enticed;
Jam 1:15 then the desire taking effect produces sin, and sin being finished brings forth death.
Jam 1:16 Be not deceived, my beloved brothers.
Jam 1:17 All good giving, and every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.
Jam 1:18 Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruit of his creatures.
Jam 1:19 Understand, my beloved brothers, and let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
Jam 1:20 for man's anger performs not God's righteousness.
Jam 1:21 Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding vice, receive with meekness the engrafted 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 perceiving his natural face in a glass;
Jam 1:24 for he perceived himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what kind of a man he was.
Jam 1:25 But he that looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, not being a forgetful hearer but a doer of work, he shall be blessed in his doing.
Jam 1:26 But if any one among you thinks he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his mind, that man's religion is vain.
Jam 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.