The General Epistle of James

 1 James, a ^aservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are ^bscattered abroad, greeting.

 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into ^adivers ^btemptations;

 3 Knowing this, that the ^atrying of your faith worketh ^bpatience.

 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be ^aperfect and entire, wanting nothing.

 5 ^aIf any of you lack ^bwisdom, let him ask of God, that ^cgiveth to all men liberally, and ^dupbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

 6 But let him ^aask in ^bfaith, nothing ^cwavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

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

 8 A ^adouble minded man is unstable in all his ways.

 9 Let the brother of ^alow degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the ^agrass he shall pass away.

 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the ^agrace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the ^brich man fade away in his ways.

 12 ^aBlessed is the man that ^bendureth temptation: for when he is ^ctried, he shall receive the ^dcrown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be ^atempted with ^bevil, neither tempteth he any man:

 14 But every man is ^atempted, when he is drawn away of his own ^blust, and enticed.

 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth ^asin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.

 17 Every ^agood ^bgift and every perfect ^cgift is from above, and ^dcometh down from the ^eFather of lights, with whom is no ^fvariableness, neither shadow of turning.

 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to ^aspeak, ^bslow to ^cwrath:

 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

 21 Wherefore lay apart all ^afilthiness and ^bsuperfluity of naughtiness, and receive with ^cmeekness the ^dengrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

 22 But be ye ^adoers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

 23 For if any be a ^ahearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a ^bglass:

 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect ^alaw of ^bliberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his ^atongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is ^bvain.

 27 Pure ^areligion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To ^bvisit the ^cfatherless and ^dwidows in their ^eaffliction, and to keep himself ^funspotted from ^gthe ^hworld.