Thematic Bible
James 1:1 (show verse)
JAMES, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the dispersion, greeting.
James 1:2 (show verse)
My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into manifold trials,
James 1:3 (show verse)
knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.
James 1:4 (show verse)
But let patience have its work perfected, that you may be perfect and faultless, wanting in nothing.
James 1:5 (show verse)
Now, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.
James 1:6 (show verse)
But let him ask in faith, doubting not: for he that doubts, is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind, and tossed.
James 1:7 (show verse)
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.
James 1:8 (show verse)
A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
James 1:9 (show verse)
Let the brother that is in a lowly condition, glory in his exaltation:
James 1:10 (show verse)
but he that is rich, in his humiliation; because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
James 1:11 (show verse)
For the sun rises with its burning heat, and withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its form perishes. So, also, shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
James 1:12 (show verse)
Blessed is the man that endures trial: for, being approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.
James 1:13 (show verse)
Let no one say, when he is tempted, My temptation is from God; for God can not be tempted by evils, and he himself tempts no man.
James 1:14 (show verse)
But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desire, and is deluded.
James 1:15 (show verse)
So, then, desire, when it has conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when it is matured, brings forth death.
James 1:16 (show verse)
Be not deceived, my beloved brethren;
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James 1:17 (show verse)
every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor slightest trace of turning.
James 1:18 (show verse)
Of his own will, he begot us with the word of truth, in order that we might be, as it were, the first-fruits of his creatures.
James 1:19 (show verse)
So, then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
James 1:20 (show verse)
For the wrath of man produces not the righteousness of God.
James 1:21 (show verse)
Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness, and every excess caused by malice, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:22 (show verse)
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 1:23 (show verse)
For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man that looks at his natural face in a mirror:
James 1:24 (show verse)
for he looks at himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what sort of person he is.
James 1:25 (show verse)
But he that looks intently into the perfect law of liberty, and remains constant, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his deed.
James 1:26 (show verse)
If any one among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
James 1:27 (show verse)
Religion, pure 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.