Thematic Bible
James 1:1 (show verse)
James, bondman of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the dispersion, greeting.
James 1:2 (show verse)
Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,
James 1:3 (show verse)
knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.
James 1:4 (show verse)
But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
James 1:5 (show verse)
But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him:
James 1:6 (show verse)
but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about;
James 1:7 (show verse)
for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord;
James 1:8 (show verse)
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
James 1:9 (show verse)
But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation,
James 1:10 (show verse)
and the rich in his humiliation, because as the grass's flower he will pass away.
James 1:11 (show verse)
For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.
James 1:12 (show verse)
Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him.
James 1:13 (show verse)
Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one.
James 1:14 (show verse)
But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;
James 1:15 (show verse)
then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.
James 1:16 (show verse)
Do not err, my beloved brethren.
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James 1:17 (show verse)
Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning.
James 1:18 (show verse)
According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.
James 1:19 (show verse)
So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
James 1:20 (show verse)
for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness.
James 1:21 (show verse)
Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:22 (show verse)
But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves.
James 1:23 (show verse)
For if any man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror:
James 1:24 (show verse)
for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like.
James 1:25 (show verse)
But he that fixes his view on the perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in it, being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his doing.
James 1:26 (show verse)
If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.
James 1:27 (show verse)
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.