JAMES 1

1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes, those in the Dispersion, greeting.
1:2 My brethren, consider it all joy when you fall into various temptations;
1:3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
1:4 But let endurance have her perfect work, so that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and without reproach; and it shall be given him.
1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he who wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower on it falls, and the beautiful appearance of it perishes; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1:12 Blessed is the man endures endureth temptation; for when he is tested, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, nor tempts he any man:
1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
1:15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is fully-accomplished, it brings forth death.
1:16 Do not be led-astray, my beloved brethren.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor turning shadow.
1:18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
1:19 Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
1:20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
1:21 Therefore, laying apart all filthiness and abundance of wickedness, in humility receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
1:22 But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
1:23 For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror;
1:24 For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and right-away forgets what manner of man he was.
1:25 But he who having looked into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his work.
1:26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unstained from the world.

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JAMES 2

2:1 My brethren, do not in partiality have the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in dirty clothes;
2:3 And you have respect to him who wear the radient clothing, and say unto him, 'Sit you here honorably;' and say to the poor, 'Stand you there, or sit here under my footstool;'
2:4 Have you not then made a distinction in yourselves, and have become judges of evil thoughts?
2:5 Listen, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?
2:6 But you have despised the poor.
Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy Name by the which you are called?
2:8 If you fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" ( Lv 19:18), you do well:
2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.
2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
2:11 For He said said, "Do not commit adultery" (Ex 20:14), said also, "Do not kill" (Dt 5:17). Now if you commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, you have become a transgressor of the Law.
2:12 So speak you, and so do, as those who shall be judged by the Law of liberty.
2:13 For judgment is without mercy, to the one having shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
2:14 What does it profit, my brethren, though a man says he has faith, and has not works? Can that faith save him?
2:15 If a brother or sister is naked, and destitute of daily food,
2:16 And one of you say unto them, 'Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled;' however, you give them not those things which are needful to the body; what does it profit?
2:17 Even so faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone.
2:18 But, a man may say, 'You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
2:19 You believe that there is one God; you do well; the devils also believe, and tremble.
2:20 But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
2:22 You see how faith was working by his works, and by works that faith was perfected?
2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness;' and he was called the Friend of God.
2:24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

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JAMES 3

3:1 My brethren,let not many be teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
3:2 For we all offend in many things.
If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, so that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
3:4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, wherever the piolet desires.
3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.
Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!
3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; such is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind;
3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
3:9 With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made according the likeness of God.
3:10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing.
My brethren, these things ought not to be so.
3:11 Does a fountain send forth from the same place sweet water and bitter?
3:12 My brethren, Can the fig tree, bear olive berries? Or a vine, figs? Nor can a fountain yield both salt water and fresh.
3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him shw out of the good conductn his works in humilitys of wisdom.
3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
3:16 For where envying and seeking is, there is disorder and every evil deed.
3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and without hypocrisy.
3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of those who make peace.

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JAMES 4

4:1 From where come wars and quarrels among you? Is not the source from your lusts that war in your members?
4:2 You lust, and have not; ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain; you quarrel and war, yet you do not have, because you do not ask.
4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because you ask wrongly, so that you may consume it upon your lusts.
4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
4:5 Do you think that the scripture saith in vain, 'With jeaalously yearns The Spirit who dwells in us?
4:6 But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, 'God resisteth the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.'
4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
4:8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded.
4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He who speaks evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
4:12 There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; who are you who judges another?
4:13 Come now, you who say, 'To day or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get profit;
4:14 Yet you do not know what shall tomorrow shall be like. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
4:15 For that you ought to say, 'If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.
4:16 But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
4:17 Therefore to him who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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JAMES 5

5:1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
5:3 Your gold and silver has corroded; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.
5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries-out: and the cries of those who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5:5 You have lived-luxuriously on the earth, and lived in wanton-pleasure; you have fattened your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
5:6 You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.
5:7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long-patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
5:8 Be you also patient; establish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draws near.
5:9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest you be condemned; behold, the judge standeth before the door.
5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
5:11 Behold, we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the result of the Lord; that the Lord is fully-compassionate, and merciful.
5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your yes be yea; and your no, no; lest you fall into condemnation.
5:13 Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray.
Is any merry? Let him sing psalms.
5:14 Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, so that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man benefits much.
5:17 Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth by the span of three years and six months.
5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
5:19 Brethren, if any of you do strays from the truth, and someone returns him;
5:20 Let him know, that he who returns-back a sinner from the error of his way shall save his soul from death, and shall cover-over a multitude of sins.

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