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James 1

James tells believers to count it joy when they face trials, because tested faith produces patience. Anyone who lacks wisdom should ask God, who gives generously. Every good gift comes from above. Be quick to listen and slow to anger, and be doers of the word, caring for orphans and widows.

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Key verses

  • Verse 2Count trials as joy.
  • Verse 5If you lack wisdom, ask God; he gives generously.
  • Verse 22Do what God's word says, don't only hear it.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.SelectedJames 1:1Ask

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;SelectedJames 1:2Ask

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.SelectedJames 1:3Ask

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.SelectedJames 1:4Ask

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.SelectedJames 1:5Ask

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.SelectedJames 1:6Ask

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.SelectedJames 1:7Ask

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.SelectedJames 1:8Ask

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:SelectedJames 1:9Ask

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.SelectedJames 1:10Ask

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.SelectedJames 1:11Ask

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.SelectedJames 1:12Ask

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:SelectedJames 1:13Ask

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.SelectedJames 1:14Ask

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.SelectedJames 1:15Ask

Do not err, my beloved brethren.SelectedJames 1:16Ask

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.SelectedJames 1:17Ask

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.SelectedJames 1:18Ask

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:SelectedJames 1:19Ask

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.SelectedJames 1:20Ask

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.SelectedJames 1:21Ask

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.SelectedJames 1:22Ask

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:SelectedJames 1:23Ask

For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.SelectedJames 1:24Ask

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.SelectedJames 1:25Ask

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.SelectedJames 1:26Ask

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.SelectedJames 1:27Ask

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