James 1 : King James Version

1 1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to
the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 2My
brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh
patience. 4But let patience have her perfect work, that
ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5If 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. 6But
let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like
a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7For
let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 9Let
the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 10But
the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass
he shall pass away. 11For 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. 12Blessed 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.
13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God:
for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his
own lust, and enticed. 15Then when lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth
death. 16Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17Every
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. 18Of his own will begat he us with the word
of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift
to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20For the wrath of
man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21Wherefore lay
apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive
with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves. 23For 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: 24For he beholdeth himself, and
goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25But 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. 26If any
man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but
deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27Pure
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.