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| [1]JAMES, a servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus the Messiah; to the twelve tribes dispersed among the Gentiles; greeting [peace]. |
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| [2]Let it be all joy to you, my brethren, when ye enter into many and various trials. |
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| [3]For ye know, that the trial of [your] faith, maketh you possess patience. |
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| [4]And let patience have its perfect work, so that ye may be complete and perfect, and may lack nothing. |
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| [5]And if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask [it] of God, who giveth to all freely, and reproacheth not; and it will be given him. |
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| [6]But let him ask in faith, not hesitating: he who hesitateth is like the waves of the sea, which the wind agitateth. |
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| [7]And let not that man expect to receive any thing of the Lord, |
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| [8]who is hesitating in his mind, and unstable in all his ways. |
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| [9]And let the depressed brother rejoice, in his elevation; |
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| [10]and the rich, in his depression; because, like the flower of an herb, so he passeth away. |
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| [11]For the sun riseth in its heat, and drieth up the herb; and its flower falleth, and the beauty of its appearance perisheth: so also the rich man withereth in his ways. |
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| [12]Blessed is the man who endureth temptations; so that when he is proved he may receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him. |
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| [13]Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted with evils, nor doth he tempt any man. |
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| [14]But every man is tempted by his own lust; and he lusteth, and is drawn away. |
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| [15]And this [his] lust conceiveth, and bringeth forth sin; and sin, when mature, bringeth forth death. |
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| [16]Do not err, my beloved brethren. |
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| [17]Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no mutation, not even the shadow of change. |
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| [18]He saw fit, and begat us by the word of truth; that we might be the first-fruits of his creatures. |
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| [19]And be ye, my beloved brethren, every one of you, swift to hear, and slow to speak; and slow to wrath: |
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| [20]for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. |
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| [21]Wherefore, remove far from you all impurity, and the abundance of wickedness; and, with meekness, receive the word that is implanted in our nature, which is able to vivify these your souls. |
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| [22]But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only; and do not deceive yourselves. |
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| [23]For if any man shall be a hearer of the word, and not a doer of it, he will be like one who seeth his face in a mirror: |
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| [24]for he seeth himself, and passeth on, and forgetteth what a man he was. |
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| [25]But every one that looketh upon the perfect law of liberty and abideth in it, is not a hearer of something to be forgotten, but a doer of the things; and he will be blessed in his work. |
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| [26]And if any one thinketh that he worshippeth God, and doth not restrain his tongue, but his heart deceiveth him; his worship is vain. |
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| [27]For the worship that is pure and holy before God the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and that one keep himself unspotted from the world. |
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