Thematic Bible
James 1:1 (show verse)
This letter is from James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings to the twelve tribes that are scattered.
James 1:2 (show verse)
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials.
James 1:3 (show verse)
Know that the testing of your faith produces patience (endurance).
James 1:4 (show verse)
Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be mature, complete, and lacking in nothing.
James 1:5 (show verse)
If any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God. He gives to all generously and without reproach and it will be given to him.
James 1:6 (show verse)
However he must ask in faith, not doubting: for he who doubts is like a surging wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
James 1:7 (show verse)
Do not let that man think that he will receive anything from God.
James 1:8 (show verse)
A double-minded man is unstable (inconsistent) in all his ways.
James 1:9 (show verse)
Let the brother of humble circumstances glory in his high position (exaltation).
James 1:10 (show verse)
But the rich must be glad when God humbles them. This is because they will wither like wildflowers and pass away.
James 1:11 (show verse)
The sun rises with scorching heat and withers the grass. The flower falls off and its beauty perishes. So also the rich man will fade away in his pursuits.
James 1:12 (show verse)
The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.
James 1:13 (show verse)
Let no man say when he is tempted: God tempts me. God cannot be tempted with evil, and he tempts (entices) (tests) (trys) no one.
James 1:14 (show verse)
Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured).
James 1:15 (show verse)
Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.
James 1:16 (show verse)
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
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James 1:17 (show verse)
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.
James 1:18 (show verse)
Using his own will, he gave us birth through the word of truth. This way we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
James 1:19 (show verse)
You know this, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
James 1:20 (show verse)
The anger of man does not promote the righteousness of God.
James 1:21 (show verse)
Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.
James 1:22 (show verse)
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves.
James 1:23 (show verse)
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror.
James 1:24 (show verse)
He sees 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, the law of liberty, and so continues, being not a hearer who forgets but a doer who works, this man will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:26 (show verse)
If any man thinks he is religious, while he does not control his tongue but deceives his heart, this man's religion is vain (worthless) (useless).
James 1:27 (show verse)
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.