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Read James 1

World English Bible · 27 verses

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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