The New Testament
Translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript
1918 by Henry Anderson

James Chapter 1

Jam 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the dispersion, greeting.
Jam 1:2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into diversified temptations,
Jam 1:3 knowing that the proof of your faith works out patience.
Jam 1:4 But let patience have a perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting in nothing.
Jam 1:5 But if any one of you is wanting in wisdom, let him ask from God, who gives to all liberally and upbraids not, and it shall be given to him.
Jam 1:6 But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing; for he that doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
Jam 1:7 Let that man surely not think that he shall receive anything from the Lord —
Jam 1:8 a man of two minds, unsteady in all his ways.
Jam 1:9 But let the brother that is of low degree glory in his exaltation,
Jam 1:10 and the rich in his humiliation, because as the flower of grass shall he pass away.
Jam 1:11 For the sun rises with the, burning wind and withers the grass, and its flower falls away, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.
Jam 1:12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, because having become approved he shall receive the crown of life, which he has promised to those that love him.
Jam 1:13 Let no one, when tempted, say: I am tempted by God. For God cannot be tempted by evils, and himself tempts no one.
Jam 1:14 But every one is tempted by his own desire, being drawn away and seduced:
Jam 1:15 then desire, having conceived, brings forth sin, and sin, having been perfected, brings forth death.
Jam 1:16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
Jam 1:17 Every good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow cast by turning.
Jam 1:18 Having willed it, he begot us with the word of truth, in order that we should be a firstfruit of his creatures.
Jam 1:19 You know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
Jam 1:20 for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
Jam 1:21 Wherefore, having put away all filthiness and overflowing of malice, receive in meekness the implanted word that is able to save your souls.
Jam 1:22 But become 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 mirror;
Jam 1:24 for he beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
Jam 1:25 But he that looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues, he not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, shall be blessed in his doing.
Jam 1:26 If any one seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Jam 1:27 Religion pure, and undefiled with God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, to keep himself unspotted from the world.