Jas1:1 Greeting to the Twelve TribesFaith Works in Trial , a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad:Greetings.Profiting from Trials
Jas1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
Jas1:3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
Jas1:4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
Jas1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Jas1:6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
Jas1:7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
Jas1:8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.The Perspective of Rich and Poor
Jas1:9 Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation,
Jas1:10 but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.
Jas1:11 For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.Loving God Under Trials
Jas1:12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
Jas1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.
Jas1:14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Jas1:15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
Jas1:16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
Jas1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Jas1:18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.Qualities Needed in Trials
Jas1:19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
Jas1:20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.Doers--Not Hearers Only
Jas1:21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Jas1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
Jas1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;
Jas1:24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
Jas1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
Jas1:26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless.
Jas1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.