James 1
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in dispersion sendeth greeting.
2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
Account it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials:
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience;
4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
but let patience have it's perfect work, that ye may be entirely perfect, failing in nothing.
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.
And if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.
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.
But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea blown about and tossed by the wind.
7 For that man should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.
8 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
A double-minded man is inconstant in all his ways.
9 Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
Let the brother that is low rejoice in his exaltation: but the rich in his humiliation,
10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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.
For when the sun is risen with it's sultry heat, it drieth up the grass, and the flower of, it falleth, and the beauty of it's appearance is lost: so shall the rich man fade away in his projects.
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.
Happy is the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Let no one that is tempted say, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted by evils, and He tempteth no one.
14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
But every man is tempted, when drawn aside and insnared by his own vehement desire.
15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
Then desire having conceived bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Be not therefore deceived, my beloved brethren: for every good gift,
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.
and every perfect gift, but no evil one, is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, nor shadow of turning:
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.
who hath of his own will begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
for the wrath of man doth not practise the righteousness of God.
21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Laying aside therefore all filthiness, and excess of malice, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
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;
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror,
24 for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
who beheld himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what manner of man he was.
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.
But he that looketh well into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
If any among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, this man's devotion is vain.
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.
Pure and uncorrupt religion before God and our Father is this, to take care of orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
