(James 1 KJV) "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. {2} My
brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; {3}
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. {4} But
let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire,
wanting nothing. {5} If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that
giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
him. {6} But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. {7}
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
{8} A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. {9} Let the brother
of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: {10} But the rich, in that
he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
{11} For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it
withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of
the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his
ways. {12} Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is
tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised
to them that love him. {13} Let no man say when he is tempted, I am
tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he
any man: {14} But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own
lust, and enticed. {15} Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth
sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. {16} Do not
err, my beloved brethren. {17} Every good gift and every perfect gift is
from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning. {18} Of his own will begat he
us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of
his creatures. {19} Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be
swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: {20} For the wrath of man
worketh not the righteousness of God. {21} Wherefore lay apart all
filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the
engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. {22} But be ye doers
of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
{23} For if any be a hearer of the word, and
not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
{24} For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway
forgetteth what manner of man he was. {25} But whoso looketh into the
perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a
forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in
his deed. {26} If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth
not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is
vain. {27} Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is
this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to
keep himself unspotted from the world."