1James 1

CHAP. 1. / Wee are to reioyce vnder the Crosse, 5 To aske patience of God, 13 And in our trials not to impute our weakenesse, or sinnes vnto him, 19 but rather to hearken to the word, to meditate in i

1Iames a seruant of God, and of the Lord Iesus Christ, to the twelue Tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.Select James 1:1

2My brethren count it all ioy when ye fall into diuers temptations,Select James 1:2

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

4But let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect, and entier, wanting nothing.Select James 1:4

5If any of you lacke wisedome, let him aske of God, that giueth to all men liberally, and vpbraideth not: and it shalbe giuen him.Select James 1:5

6But let him aske in faith, nothing wauering: for he that wauereth is like a waue of the sea, driuen with the wind and tossed.Select James 1:6

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

8A double minded man is vnstable in all his wayes.Select James 1:8

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

10But the rich, in that hee is made low: because as the floure of the grasse he shall passe away.Select James 1:10

11For the Sunne is no sooner risen with a burning heate, but it withereth the grasse; and the flowre thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his wayes.Select James 1:11

12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when hee is tried, hee shall receiue the crowne of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that loue him.Select James 1:12

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

14But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away of his owne lust, and entised.Select James 1:14

15Then when lust hath conceiued, it bringeth forth sinne: and sinne, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.Select James 1:15

16Doe not erre, my beloued brethren.Select James 1:16

17Euery good gift, and euery perfect gift is from aboue, & commeth downe: from the Father of lights, with whom is no variablenesse, neither shadow of turning.Select James 1:17

18Of his owne will begate hee vs with the word of Trueth, that wee should bee a kinde of first fruites of his creatures.Select James 1:18

19Wherefore my beloued brethren, let euery man bee swift to heare, slow to speake, slow to wrath.Select James 1:19

20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousnesse of God.Select James 1:20

21Wherefore lay apart all filthinesse, and superfluitie of naughtinesse & receiue with meeknesse the engrafted word, which is able to saue your soules.Select James 1:21

22But be ye doers of the word, not hearers onely, deceiuing your owne selues.Select James 1:22

23For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like vnto a man beholding his naturall face in a glasse;Select James 1:23

24For hee beholdeth himselfe, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what maner of man he was.Select James 1:24

25But who so looketh into the perfect Law of libertie, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetfull hearer, but a doer of the works, this man shall be blessed in his deed.Select James 1:25

26If any man among you seeme to be religious, & bridleth not his tongue, but deceiueth his owne heart, this mans religion is vaine.Select James 1:26

27Pure religion and vndefiled before God and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherlesse and widowes in their affliction, and to keepe himselfe vnspotted from the world.Select James 1:27