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The General Epistle of James Chapter 1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord

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Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which
are scattered abroad, greeting.

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My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall
into diverse temptations, knowing this,

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that the trying of your faith worketh
patience.

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But let patience have her perfect work,
that ye may be perfect and entire,

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wanting nothing.

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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of
God, that giveth to all men liberally,

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and upbraideth not, and it shall be given
him.

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But let him ask in faith, nothing
wavering, for he that wavereth is like a

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wave of the sea, driven with the wind and
tossed.

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For let not that man think that he shall
receive anything of the Lord.

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A double-minded man is unstable in all his
ways.

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Let the brother of low degree rejoice,
in that he is exalted, but the rich,

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in that he is made low, because as the
flower of the grass he shall pass away.

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For the sun is no sooner risen with the
burning heat, but it withereth the grass,

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and the flower thereof falleth,
and the grace of the fashion of it

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perisheth.

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So also shall the rich man fade away in
his ways.

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Blessed is the man that endureth
temptation, for when he is tried,

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he shall receive the crown of life,
which the Lord hath promised to them that

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love him.

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Let no man say when he is tempted,
I am tempted of God.

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For God cannot be tempted with evil,
neither tempteth he any man.

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But every man is tempted, when he is drawn
away, of his own lust, and enticed.

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Then, when lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin, and sin,

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when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

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Do not err, my beloved brethren.

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Every good gift and every perfect gift is
from above, and cometh down from the

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Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning.

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Of his own will begat he us with the word
of truth, that we should be a kind of

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firstfruits of his creatures.

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Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
let every man be swift to hear,

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slow to speak, slow to wrath.

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For the wrath of man worketh not the
righteousness of God.

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Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness and
superfluity of naughtiness, and receive

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with meekness the engrafted word,
which is able to save your souls.

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But be ye doers of the word, and not
hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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For if any be a hearer of the word,
and not a doer, he is like unto a man

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beholding his natural face in a glass.

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For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his
way, and straightway forgetteth what

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manner of man he was.

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But whoso looketh into the perfect law of
liberty, and continueth therein,

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he being not a forgetful hearer,
but a doer of the work, this man shall be

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blessed in his deed.

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If any man among you seem to be religious,
and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth

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his own heart, this man's religion is
vain.

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Pure religion, and undefiled before God
and the Father, is this, to visit the

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fatherless and widows in their affliction,
and to keep himself unspotted from the world.