James 1
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Iames the seruaut of God and of the Lorde Iesus Christ sendeth gretinge to ye. xii. trybes which are scattered here and there.
2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations;
My brethren count it excedynge ioye when ye faule into divers teptacions
3 knowing that the trying of your faith worketh endurance.
for as moche as ye knowe how that the tryinge of youre fayth bringeth pacience:
4 But let endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting in nothing.
and let pacience have her parfect worke that ye maye be parfecte and sounde lackinge nothinge.
5 But if any one of you is wanting in wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.
Yf eny of you lacke wysdome let him axe of God which geveth to all men indifferentlie and casteth no man in the teth: and it shal be geven him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
But let him axe in fayth and waver not. For he that douteth is lyke the waves of the see tost of the wynde and caried with violence.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord,
Nether let that man thinke that he shall receave eny thinge of the Lorde.
8 a double-minded man as he is, unstable in all his ways.
A waveringe mynded man is vnstable in all his wayes.
9 Let the brother of low degree glory in that he is exalted;
Let the brother of lowe degre reioyce in yt he is exalted
10 but the rich, in that he is made low; because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
and the ryche in that he is made lowe. For eve as ye flower of the grasse shall he vanysshe awaye.
11 For the sun rose with its burning heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also will the rich man fade away in his ways.
The sonne ryseth with heate and the grasse wydereth and his flower falleth awaye and the beautie of the fassion of it perissheth: even so shall the ryche man perisshe with his aboundance.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to them that love him.
Happy is the man that endureth in temptacion for when he is tryed he shall receave the croune of lyfe which the Lorde hath promysed to them that love him.
13 Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted by God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he tempteth no one.
Let no man saye when he is tepted that he is tempted of God. For God tepteth not vnto evyll nether tepteth he anie ma.
14 But each one is tempted when by his own lust he is led away and enticed;
But every ma is tepted drawne awaye and entysed of his awne concupiscece.
15 then lust, having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when completed, bringeth forth death.
Then when lust hath coceaved she bringeth forth synne and synne whe it is fynisshed bringeth forthe deeth.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Erre not my deare brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no change, nor shadow from turning.
Every good gyfte and every parfayt gyft is from above and commeth doune fro the father of light with whom is no variablenes nether is he chaunged vnto darcknes.
18 Of his own will he begot us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
Of his awne will begat he vs with the worde of lyfe that we shuld be the fyrst frutes of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
Wherfore deare brethren let every man be swyfte to heare slowe to speake and slowe to wrath.
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
For the wrath of man worketh not that which is ryghteous before God.
21 Wherefore put off all filthiness, and excess of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Wherfore laye a parte all fylthynes all superfluite of maliciousnes and receave with meknes the worde yt is grafted in you which is able to save youre soules.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
And se that ye be doars of the worde and not hearers only deceavinge youre awne selves with sophistrie
23 For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass;
For yf eny heare the worde and do it not he is lyke vnto a man that beholdeth his bodyly face in a glasse.
24 for he beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.
For assone as he hath loked on him silfe he goeth his waye and forgetteth immediatlie what his fassion was.
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, and remains there, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deed.
But who so loketh in the parfaict lawe of libertie and continueth ther in (yf he be not a forgetfull hearer but a doar of ye worke) the same shall be happie in his dede.
26 If any one thinks that he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Yf eny man amonge you seme devoute and refrayne not his tonge: but deceave his awne herte this mannes devocion is in vayne
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.
Pure devocion and vndefiled before God the father is this: to vysit the frendlesse and widdowes in their adversite and to kepe him silfe vnspotted of the worlde.
