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James 1 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:1 - James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:2 - My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:3 - Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:4 - But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:7 - For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:8 - A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:9 - Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:10 - But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:14 - But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:15 - Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:16 - Do not err, my beloved brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:19 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:20 - For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:22 - But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 1:24 - For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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.
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The Authorized Version or King James Version (KJV), 1611, 1769.
Outside of the United Kingdom, the KJV is in the public domain. Within the United Kingdom, the rights to the KJV are vested in the Crown.

For more information on this translation, see the KJV Preface.

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Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

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by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
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James Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras