Wesley Version
1790 by John Wesley

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 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations, Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Jam 1:3 But let patience have its perfect work,
Jam 1:4 that we may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Jam 1:5 If any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall 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 with the wind and tossed.
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 is unstable in all his ways.
Jam 1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice 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 shall pass away.
Jam 1:11 For the sun arose with a scorching heat, and withered the grass, and the flower fell off, and the beauty of its form perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Jam 1:12 Happy is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hath been proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Jam 1:13 Let no man who is tempted say, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.
Jam 1:14 But every man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desire and enticed.
Jam 1:15 Then desire, having conceived, bringeth forth sin; and sin, being perfected, bringeth forth death.
Jam 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above,
Jam 1:17 descending from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Jam 1:18 Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we might 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 Therefore, laying aside all the filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jam 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Jam 1:23 For if any one be 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 beheld himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what manner of man he was.
Jam 1:25 But he that looketh diligently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and continueth therein, this man being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be happy in his doing.
Jam 1:26 If any one be ever so religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Jam 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God even the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.