• 1:1James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion: Rejoice!
• 1:2Count it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall into various trials,
• 1:3Knowing that the proving of your faith works out endurance.
• 1:4And let endurance have its perfect work that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
• 1:5But if any one of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and does not reproach, and it will be given to him.
• 1:6But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for he who doubts is like the surge of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed about.
• 1:7For that man must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
• 1:8He is a double-souled man, unstable in all his ways.
• 1:9And let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,
• 1:10And the rich in his being brought low, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
• 1:11For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off, and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so also the rich man will fade away in his pursuits.
• 1:12Blessed is the man who endures trial, because when he has become approved by testing, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to those who love Him.
• 1:13Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted of evil, and He Himself tempts no one.
• 1:14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own lusts;
• 1:15Then the lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; and the sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death.
• 1:16Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• 1:17All good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation or shadow cast by turning.
• 1:18He brought us forth by the word of truth, purposing that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
• 1:19You know this, my beloved brothers; but let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
• 1:20For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
• 1:21Therefore putting away all filthiness and the abundance of malice, receive in meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
• 1:22And become doers of the word and not hearers only, who delude themselves.
• 1:23Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one is like a man considering in a mirror the face he was born with;
• 1:24For he considers himself and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he is.
• 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues in it, becoming not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his doing.
• 1:26If anyone thinks himself to be religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this one's religion is vain.
• 1:27This is pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.