1James 1

1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.Select James 1:1

2My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations;Select James 1:2

3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.Select James 1:3

4But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.Select James 1:4

5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.Select James 1:5

6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.Select James 1:6

7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.Select James 1:7

8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.Select James 1:8

9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:Select James 1:9

10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.Select James 1:10

11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it wither the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.Select James 1:11

12Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.Select James 1:12

13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:Select James 1:13

14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.Select James 1:14

15Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.Select James 1:15

16Do not err, my beloved brothers.Select James 1:16

17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no ficklenss, neither shadow of turning.Select James 1:17

18Of his own will fathered he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.Select James 1:18

19Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:Select James 1:19

20For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.Select James 1:20

21Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.Select James 1:21

22But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.Select James 1:22

23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a glass:Select James 1:23

24For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was.Select James 1:24

25But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.Select James 1:25

26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.Select James 1:26

27Pure 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.Select James 1:27