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James Chapter 1|#11 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.#22 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations;#23 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience.#24 But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.#25 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and without reproaching; and it shall be given him.#26 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.#27 For do not let that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.#28 A double decided man is unstable in all his ways.|*29 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:#210 But the rich, in that he is made low: Because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.#211 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.|*212 Blessed 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.#213 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he anyone:#214 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.#215 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: And sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.|*216 Do not err, my beloved brethren.#217 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.#218 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.|*219 Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:#220 For the anger of man works not the righteousness of God.#221 Therefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.|*222 But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.#223 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man seeing his natural face in a glass:#224 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.#225 But whoso 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.|*226 If anyone among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.#227 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.