Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.

My brethren, count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations,

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth; and it shall be given him.

If any be diseased among you, let him call for the elders of the congregation, and let them pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord:

Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and cometh down from the father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither is he changed unto darkness.

Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

What availeth it, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, when he hath no deeds? Can faith save him?

And see that ye be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves with sophistry.

Submit yourselves to God, and resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

and ye have a respect to him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto him, "Sit thou here in a good place," and say unto the poor, "stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool" -

Ye have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you.

but giveth more grace?

Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God.

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

Let no man say when he is tempted that he is tempted of God: for God tempteth not unto evil, neither tempteth he any man.

Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Believest thou that there is one God? Thou doest well. The devils also believe and tremble.

If any of you be evil vexed, let him pray. If any of you be merry, let him sing Psalms.

Neither let that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

My brethren, be not every man a master; Remembering how that we shall receive the more damnation.

The sun riseth with heat, and the grass withereth and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man perish with his abundance.

Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet fail in one point, he is guilty in all.

Brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory in respect of persons.

and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away.

From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purge your hearts ye wavering minded.

James, the servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sendeth greeting to the twelve tribes which are scattered here and there.

Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the violence of the governor will:

Even so faith, if it have no deeds, is dead in itself.

Therefore to him that knoweth how to do good, and doth it not: to him, it is sin.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience there upon, until he receive the early and the latter rain.

But every man is tempted, drawn away, and enticed of his own concupiscence.

If any man be wise and endued with learning among you, let him show the works of his good conversation in meekness that is coupled with wisdom.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of life, that we should be the first fruits of his creatures.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, even so faith without deeds is dead.

Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.

Go to now, ye that say, "Today and tomorrow let us go into such a city and continue there a year and buy, and sell, and win,"

are ye not even partial in your selves, and have judged after evil thoughts?

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls:

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Ye see, then, how that of deeds a man is justified, and not of faith only.

But let him ask in faith, and waver not. For he that doubteth is like the waves of the sea, tossed of the wind, and carried with violence.

If ye fulfil the royal law - according to the scripture which saith, "Thou shalt love thine neighbour as thyself" - ye do well.

but the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, and without simulation.

but whoso looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein - if he be not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work - the same shall be happy in his deed.

Ye lust, and have not. Ye envy and have indignation, and cannot obtain. Ye fight and war, and have not, because ye ask not.

If any man among you seem devout, and refrain not his tongue: but deceive his own heart, this man's devotion is in vain.

Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, even to consume it upon your voluptuousness.

Yea, and a man might say, "Thou hast faith, and I have deeds: Show me thy faith by thy deeds: and I will show thee my faith by my deeds."

Brethren if any of you err from the truth, and another convert him,

Hearken, my dear beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, which are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to them that love him?

But above all things, my brethren, swear not: neither by heaven, neither by earth, neither by any other oath. Let your yea be "yea," and your nay, "nay," lest ye fall into hypocrisy.

Wilt thou understand, o thou vain man, that faith without deeds is dead?

Backbite not one another, brethren. He that backbiteth his brother, and he that judgeth his brother, backbiteth the law, and judgeth the law: but and if thou judge the law, thou art not an observer of the law: but a judge.

and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

For in many things we sin all. If a man sin not in word, the same is a perfect man and able to tame all the body.

And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, "Abraham believed God, and it was reputed unto him for righteousness," and he was called the friend of God.

and the tongue is fire, and a world of wickedness. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth afire all that we have of nature, and is itself set afire, even of hell.

Be ye also patient therefore, and settle your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Cast down yourselves before the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Therewith bless we God the father, and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God.

If a brother or a sister be naked or destitute of daily food,

Suffer afflictions: sorrow ye and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Then when lust hath conceived, she bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.

forasmuch as ye know how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience:

Elijah was a man, mortal even as we are, and he prayed in his prayer, that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have known what end the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitiful, and merciful.

For as soon as he hath looked on himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what his fashion was:

let the same know, that he which converted the sinner from going astray out of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide the multitude of sins. {Here ends the General Epistle of James}

There is one law giver, which is able to save and to destroy. What art thou that judgest another man?

For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man that beholdeth his bodily face in a glass.

and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and sound, lacking nothing.

But ye have despised the poor. Are not the rich they which oppress you: and they which draw you before judges?

For that, ye ought to say, "If the Lord will, and if we live, let us do this or that."

But now ye rejoice in your boastings. All such rejoicing is evil.

Do not they speak evil of that good name after which ye be named?

All the natures of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man.

But if ye regard one person more than another, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the law as transgressors.

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries: or a vine bear figs? So can no fountain give both salt water and fresh also.

Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

For he that said, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," said also, "thou shalt not kill." Though thou shalt do none adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art a transgressor of the law.

Doth a fountain send forth at one place sweet water, and bitter also?

If there come into your company a man with a golden ring, and in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment,

Your riches is corrupt, your garments are motheaten.

And again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

Your gold and your silver are cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness unto you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together in your last days.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

Behold, we put bits into the horses' mouths that they should obey us, and we turn about all the body.

Was not Abraham our father justified through works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

even so the tongue is little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a thing a little fire kindleth,

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth.

For where envying and strife is, there is unstableness, and all manner of evil works:

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire is of you kept back by fraud - crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

A wavering minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Likewise also, was not Rahab the harlot justified through works, when she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

Take, my brethren, the prophets: for an example of suffering adversity, and of long patience, which spake in the name of the Lord.

But the tongue can no man tame. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Either do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, "The spirit that dwelleth in you, lusteth even contrary to envy,"

Err not, my dear brethren.

This wisdom descendeth not from above: but is earthy, and natural, and devilish.

Thou seest how that faith wrought within his deeds, and through the deeds was the faith made perfect.

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be damned. Behold, the judge standeth before the door.

For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God.

Yea, and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, of them that maintain peace.

and one of you say unto them, "Depart in peace, God send you warmness and food," notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body: what helpeth it them?