James 1

Salutation (1:1)

[1] James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

Faith and Wisdom (1:2–8)

[2] My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; [3] Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. [4] But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. [5] If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. [6] But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. [7] For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. [8] A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Poverty and Riches (1:9-11)

[9] Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: [10] But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. [11] For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Trial and Temptation (1:12–18)

[12] Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

[13] Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: [14] But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. [15] Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. [16] Do not err, my beloved brethren. [17] Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. [18] Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.^[1]

Hearing and Doing the Word (1:19–27)

[19] Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: [20] For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. [21] Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness^[2], and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. [22] But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. [23] For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: [24] For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. [25] But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. [26] If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. [27] Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted^[3] from the world.

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↑ 2938 ~κτίσμα~ ktisma \@ktis’-mah\@ from 2936;n n AV-creature 4; 4 1) thing founded 2) created thing
↑ 2549 ~κακία~ kakia \@kak-ee’-ah\@ from κακός kakos evil ; n f AV-malice 6, maliciousness 2, evil 1, wickedness 1, naughtiness 1; 11
1) malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure

2) wickedness, depravity
2a) wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws

3) evil, trouble
↑ 784 ~ἄσπιλος~ aspilos \@as’-pee-los\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and σπιλόω spiloo and spilos "to defile, spot" "moral blemish"; adj AV-without spot 3, unspotted 1; 4
1) spotless

2) metaph.
2a) free from censure, irreproachable

2b) free from vice, unsullied

[1] 2938 ~κτίσμα~ ktisma \@ktis’-mah\@ from 2936;n n AV-creature 4; 4 1) thing founded 2) created thing

[2] 2549 ~κακία~ kakia \@kak-ee’-ah\@ from κακός kakos evil ; n f AV-malice 6, maliciousness 2, evil 1, wickedness 1, naughtiness 1; 11
1) malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure

2) wickedness, depravity
2a) wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws

3) evil, trouble

[3] 784 ~ἄσπιλος~ aspilos \@as’-pee-los\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and σπιλόω spiloo and spilos "to defile, spot" "moral blemish"; adj AV-without spot 3, unspotted 1; 4
1) spotless

2) metaph.
2a) free from censure, irreproachable

2b) free from vice, unsullied

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