James 1:1-27 jvb Aa 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus
Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.
2 Count it all joy, my brethren, whenever you encounter various
trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 But allow
steadfastness to have its accomplishment perfected, that you might be being
entirely mature and sound, lacking nothing.
5 Any one of you needing wisdom, be asking from God, the One giving
to all of you liberally without reproaching, and you will be receiving it. 6
But be asking in faith, without hesitating, for the one hesitating has become
like a wave of the sea being driven and tossed by the wind. 7 Hesitating man,
be not expecting that you will be receiving anything from the Lord; 8 since you
are being a double-souled man, unstable in all your ways.
9 Humble brother, be boasting in your exaltation, 10 Wealthy
brother, be boasting in your humiliation, since like a wild flower you will be passing
away. 11 For the sun rises with a scorching heat and withers the wild plant;
its flower falls, and its outward beauty is lost. In this manner, the wealthy man,
in his way of life, will be also fading away.
12 Happy is a man who is enduring testing; for as he is approved,
he will be receiving that victor's wreath out of life in Christ Jesus which the
Lord promises to those loving Him. 13 Being tempted, be not saying, "By
God I am being tempted"; for God is being untemptable by evil, and He
Himself is not tempting anyone. 14 But each is being tempted by his own
cravings, being dragged away and being lured. 15 Then, craving becomes pregnant,
and is giving birth to sin; and sin, when full-grown, is bringing forth death.
16 Be not being led astray, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good giving
and every perfect gift is being from above, coming down from the Father of
lights, with whom there is being no variation or shadow of turning. 18 His will
gives birth to us through a word of truth, into our being a sort of set apart first
fruits of His creatures.
19 Come to understand these things, my beloved brothers. Every man of
you, be being swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; 20 for wrath from
man is not producing righteousness from God. 21 Therefore, first put away all
filthiness and residue of evil, and then fitly receive the implanted word,
which is being able to keep your souls safe and sound.
22 But be becoming doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding
yourselves. 23 For if anyone is being a hearer of the word and is not being a
doer, that one has become like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24
for he observes himself, and has gone away, and immediately forgets what sort
of man he was being. 25 But the one who investigates the perfect law of liberty
and remains in it, and becomes not a forgetful hearer but a doer of deeds, this
one will be being happy in his doing.
26 If anyone among you is thinking that he is being religious, while
not bridling his tongue but misleading his own heart, this one's religion is being
empty. 27 Pure and unsullied religion before our God and Father is being this:
to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, and to be keeping
oneself unspotted from the world.
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