James 1 KJV

1. 1:1  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2. 1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3. 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4. 1:4  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5. 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6. 1:6  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.
7. 1:7  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8. 1:8  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9. 1:9  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10. 1:10  But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
11. 1:11  For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12. 1:12  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.
13. 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14. 1:14  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15. 1:15  Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16. 1:16  Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17. 1:17  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.
18. 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19. 1:19  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20. 1:20  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21. 1:21  Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22. 1:22  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23. 1:23  For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24. 1:24  For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25. 1:25  But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26. 1:26  If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27. 1:27  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.