Thematic Bible
James 1:1 (show verse)
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, 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 trying of your faith worketh endurance.
James 1:4 (show verse)
But let endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting in nothing.
James 1:5 (show verse)
But if any one of you is wanting in wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.
James 1:6 (show verse)
But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he that doubteth 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 anything from the Lord,
James 1:8 (show verse)
a doubleminded man as he is, unstable in all his ways.
James 1:9 (show verse)
Let the brother of low degree glory in that he is exalted;
James 1:10 (show verse)
but the rich, in that he is made low; because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
James 1:11 (show verse)
For the sun rose with its burning heat, and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also will the rich man fade away in his ways.
James 1:12 (show verse)
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to them that love him.
James 1:13 (show verse)
Let no one when he is tempted, say, I am tempted by God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he tempteth no one.
James 1:14 (show verse)
But each one is tempted when by his own lust he is led away and enticed;
James 1:15 (show verse)
then lust, having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when completed, bringeth 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 is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no change, nor shadow from turning.
James 1:18 (show verse)
Of his own will he begot us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 1:19 (show verse)
Wherefore, 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 worketh not the righteousness of God.
James 1:21 (show verse)
Wherefore put off all filthiness, and excess of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted 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 beholding his natural face in a glass;
James 1:24 (show verse)
for he beholds himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what manner of man he was.
James 1:25 (show verse)
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, and remains there, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deed.
James 1:26 (show verse)
If any one thinks that he is religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this mans religion is vain.
James 1:27 (show verse)
Pure religion and undefiled before God, the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep ones self unspotted from the world.