James

Chapter 1

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¹James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.14 sermons²My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;23 sermons³Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.20 sermons⁴But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.25 sermons⁵If 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.25 sermons⁶But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.12 sermons⁷For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.8 sermons⁸A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.15 sermons⁹Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:5 sermons¹⁰But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.6 sermons¹¹For 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.6 sermons¹²Blessed 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.11 sermons¹³Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:5 sermons¹⁴But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.4 sermons¹⁵Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.7 sermons¹⁶Do not err, my beloved brethren.4 sermons¹⁷Every 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.57 sermons¹⁸Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.8 sermons¹⁹Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:12 sermons²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.5 sermons²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.7 sermons²²But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.18 sermons²³For 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:14 sermons²⁴For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.13 sermons²⁵But 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.13 sermons²⁶If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.6 sermons²⁷Pure 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.11 sermons