1James 1

1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.Select James 1:1

2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,Select James 1:2

3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.Select James 1:3

4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.Select James 1:4

5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.Select James 1:5

6But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.Select James 1:6

7For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.Select James 1:7

8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.Select James 1:8

9But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;Select James 1:9

10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.Select James 1:10

11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.Select James 1:11

12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.Select James 1:12

13Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.Select James 1:13

14But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.Select James 1:14

15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.Select James 1:15

16Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.Select James 1:16

17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.Select James 1:17

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

19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;Select James 1:19

20for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.Select James 1:20

21Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.Select James 1:21

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

23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;Select James 1:23

24for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.Select James 1:24

25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.Select James 1:25

26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.Select James 1:26

27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.Select James 1:27