Jas 1
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James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are
of the Dispersion, greeting.
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Count it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into manifold temptations;
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Knowing that the proving of your faith works patience.
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And let patience have [its] perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking
in nothing.
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But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and
reproaches not; and it shall be given him.
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But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he who doubts is like the surge of
the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
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For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;
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a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.
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But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:
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and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall
pass away.
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For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers 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 goings.
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Blessed is the man that endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he shall
receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that love him.
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Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted
with evil, and he himself tempts no man:
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but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
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Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin: and the sin, when it is full grown,
brings forth death.
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Be not deceived, my beloved brethren.
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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father
of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
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Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind
of first fruits of his creatures.
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You know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to
speak, slow to anger:
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for the anger of man works not the righteousness of God.
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Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with
meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
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But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.
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For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding
his natural face in a mirror:
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for he beholds himself, and goes away, and straightway forgets what manner of man
he was.
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But he who looks into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continues, being
not a hearer that forgets but a doer that works, this man shall be blessed in his
doing.
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If any man thinks himself to be religious, while he bridles not his tongue but deceives
his heart, this man`s religion is vain.
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Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless
and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.