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[1]JAKUB, a servant of Aloha and of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, unto the twelve tribes who are dispersed among the nations: Peace. |
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[2]All joy shall be to you, my brethren, when you shall have entered into temptations many and various. |
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[3]For you know that the proving of faith maketh you to possess patience; |
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[4]But to patience let there be a perfect work, that you may be complete and perfected, and in nothing be deficient. |
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[5]If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask of Aloha, who giveth to all expansively, and upbraideth not, and it is given to him. |
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[6]But let him ask in faith, not wavering.ⓘ For he who wavereth is like the waves of the sea which the wind disturbeth. |
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[7]And let not that man expect to receive any thing from the Lord, |
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[8]Who is divided in his mind, and disturbed in all his ways. |
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[9]But let the humble brother glory in his exaltation, |
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[10]And the rich in his humility; for as the flower of an herb, so he passeth. |
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[11]For the sun ariseth in his heat, and drieth the herb, and the flower of it falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth; so also the rich withereth in his reverses. |
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[12]Blessed the man who endureth temptations: for when he hath been proved he shall receive the crown of life, which Aloha hath promised unto them who love him. |
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[13]Let no man say, when he is tempted, From Aloha I am tempted; for Aloha is not tempted with evils, and he no man tempteth. |
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[14]But each man from his concupiscence tempteth himself, and desireth, and is drawn away. |
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[15]And this desire conceiveth and beareth sin; and sin, when it is perfected, beareth death. |
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[16]Do not err, my beloved brethren; |
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[17]Every good gift and perfect from above descendeth, from the Father of lights, with whom is no alteration, nor the shadow of vicissitude. |
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[18]He willed, and begat us by the word of truth, that we might be the first-ones of his creatures. |
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[19]And you, my beloved brethren, let every one of you be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and slow to be angry; |
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[20]For the wrath of man the righteousness of Aloha worketh not. |
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[21]Wherefore, remove from you all impurity and the abounding of wickedness, and with meekness receive the word which is engrafted in our nature, which is able to save your souls. |
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[22]BUT be doers of the word, and not hearers only, neither deceive yourselves. |
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[23]For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer of it, this [man] is like one who vieweth his face in a mirror; |
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[24]For he seeth himself and passeth, and hath forgotten what [manner of person] he was. |
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[25]But every one who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he is not a hearer of the hearing of forgetfulness, but a doer of works; and this shall be blessed in his work. |
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[26]And if a man thinketh that he servethⓘ Aloha, and holdeth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, of this man his service is vain. |
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[27]For the serviceⓘ which is pure and true before Aloha the Father, is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their afflictions, and that a man keep himself from the world without blemish. |