Concerning Those Who Wander from the Truth (5:19-20)
Jas1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Jas1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Jas1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Jas1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Jas1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Jas1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Jas1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Jas1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Jas1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
Jas1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Jas1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Jas1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Jas1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
Jas1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Jas1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Jas1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Jas1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Jas1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jas1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Jas1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Jas1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jas1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Jas1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
Jas1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Jas1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Jas1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Jas1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Jas2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
Jas2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
Jas2:3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
Jas2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
Jas2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Jas2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
Jas2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
Jas2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Jas2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
Jas2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Jas2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Jas2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Jas2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Jas2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Jas2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
Jas2:16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Jas2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Jas2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
Jas2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Jas2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Jas2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Jas2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Jas2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Jas2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Jas2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
Jas2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Jas3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Jas3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Jas3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
Jas3:4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
Jas3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Jas3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Jas3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
