James 1

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1. 1From James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the 12 tribes scattered across the world: Greetings.
2. 2My brothers and sisters, consider it all joy when you fall into various temptations;
3. 3because you know that the testing of your faith produces patience.
4. 4But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
5. 5If any of you needs wisdom, ask God for it. He gives generously to everyone without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
6. 6But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt. A person who doubts is like a wave in the ocean, blown and tossed by the wind.
7. 7That person shouldn't expect to receive anything from the Lord.
8. 8A double-minded person is unstable in everything they do.
9. 9Let the brother of low position rejoice in that he is exalted:
10. 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.
11. 11The sun rises with scorching heat and dries up the grass; its flowers fall, and their beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich man will fade away in his ways.
12. 12Blessed is the person who endures temptation, for when they are tested, they will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
13. 13When someone is tempted, they should never say, "God is tempting me." God cannot be tempted by evil, and he doesn't tempt anyone.
14. 14But each person is tempted when they are drawn away by their own lust and enticed.
15. 15Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.
16. 16Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
17. 17Every good and perfect gift comes from above, coming down from the Father of lights. He never changes or shifts like a moving shadow.
18. 18By his own will, he brought us forth with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19. 19Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20. 20For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
21. 21So strip away all filthiness and excess of wickedness, and humbly receive the engrafted word, which has the power to save your souls.
22. 22Don't just listen to the word. Do what it says. Otherwise, you're only fooling yourselves.
23. 23Anyone who listens to the word but doesn't act on it is like someone who looks at their face in a mirror,
24. 24takes a look, walks away, and immediately forgets what they looked like.
25. 25But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, not being a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this person will be blessed in their doing.
26. 26If anyone among you seems to be religious but does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his own heart, and his religion is worthless.
27. 27Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.