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1. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
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2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.
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3. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
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4. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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5. If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him.
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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.
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7. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.
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8. A man unsettled in his opinions is unstable in all his ways.
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9. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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10. But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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11. For the sun hath no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and its flower falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
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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.
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13. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
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14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
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15. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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16. Do not err, my beloved brethren.
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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.
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18. Of his own will he hath begotten us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
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19. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
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21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
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22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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23. For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
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24. For he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and immediately forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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25. But he who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
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26. If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
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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.
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