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The next file is: JAMES
1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
 twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
 temptations.
1:3 Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh
 patience.
1:4 But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be
 perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1:5 If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth
 to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be
 given to him.
1:6 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.
1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing
 from the Lord.
1:8 A man unsettled in his opinions [is] unstable in all his
 ways.
1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower
 of the grass he shall pass away.
1:11 For the sun hath no sooner risen with a burning heat, but
 it withereth the grass, and its flower falleth, and the grace
 of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade
 away in his ways.
1:12 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.
1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God: for
 God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own
 lust, and enticed.
1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and
 sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
1:17 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.
1:18 Of his own will he hath begotten us with the word of truth,
 that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to
 hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
 naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word,
 which is able to save your souls.
1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
 deceiving your own selves.
1:23 For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is
 like a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and immediately
 forgetteth what manner of man he was.
1:25 But he who looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
 continueth [in it], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer
 of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
1:26 If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth
 not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's
 religion [is] vain.
1:27 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 from the world.
2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
 [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons.
2:2 For if there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring,
 in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile
 raiment;
2:3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing,
 and say to him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the
 poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges
 of evil thoughts?
2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor
 of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he
 hath promised to them that love him?
2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you,
 and draw you before the judgment-seats?
2:7 Do they not blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are
 called?
2:8 If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou
 shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are
 convicted by the law as transgressors.
2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one
 [point], he is guilty of all.
2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery; said also, Do not
 kill. Now if thou committest no adultery, yet if thou killest,
 thou art become a transgressor of the law.
2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the
 law of liberty.
2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy that hath shown no
 mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
2:14 What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man sayeth he
 hath faith, and hath not works? can faith save him?
2:15 If a brother or sister is naked, and destitute of daily
 food,
2:16 And one of you sayeth to them, Depart in peace, be you
 warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those
 things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?
2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
2:18 Also a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show
 me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith
 by my works.
2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the
 demons also believe, and tremble.
2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is
 dead?
2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had
 offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works
 was faith made perfect?
2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, Abraham
 believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness: and
 he was called the Friend of God.
2:24 Ye see then that by works a man is justified, and not by
 faith only.
2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works,
 when she had received the messengers, and had sent [them] out
 another way?
2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
 without works is dead also.
3:1 My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall
 receive the greater condemnation.
3:2 For in many things we all offend. If any man offendeth not
 in word, the same [is] a perfect man, able also to bridle the
 whole body.
3:3 Behold, we put bits in the mouths of horses, that they may
 obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
3:4 Behold also the ships, which though they are so great, and
 [are] driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a
 very small helm, withersoever the governor willeth.
3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great
 things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
3:6 And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the
 tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and
 setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire
 from hell.
3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and
 of animals in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by
 mankind:
3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full
 of deadly poison.
3:9 With this we bless God, even the Father; and with this we
 curse men, who are made after the similitude of God.
3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My
 brethren, these things ought not so to be.
3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water]
 and bitter?
3:12 Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? or a
 vine, figs? so no fountain [can] yield both salt water and
 fresh.
3:13 Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
 let him show by a good deportment his works with meekness of
 wisdom.
3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
 glory not, and lie not against the truth.
3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly,
 sensual, demoniacal.
3:16 For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and
 every evil work.
3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
 peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be entreated, full of mercy
 and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them
 that make peace.
4:1 From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they]
 not hence, [even] from your lusts that war in your members?
4:2 Ye lust and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and
 cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye
 ask not.
4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
 consume [it] upon your lusts.
4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
 friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever therefore
 will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit
 that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth
 the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he
 will flee from you.
4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse
 [your] hands, [ye] sinners, and purify [your] hearts, [ye]
 double-minded.
4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be
 turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will
 lift you up.
4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh
 evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil
 of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law,
 thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save, and to destroy:
 who art thou that judgest another?
4:13 Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into
 such a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and
 get gain:
4:14 Whereas ye know not what [will be] on the morrow: For what
 [is] your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little
 time, and then vanisheth away.
4:15 Instead of that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we
 shall live, and do this, or that.
4:16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is
 evil.
4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it]
 not, to him it is sin.
5:1 Come now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries
 that shall come upon [you].
5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall
 be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were
 fire. Ye have amassed treasure for the last days.
5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your
 fields, which is by you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the
 cries of them who have reaped have entered into the ears of the
 Lord of Sabaoth.
5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye
 have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
5:6 Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not
 resist you.
5:7 Be patient, therefore, brethren, to the coming of the Lord.
 Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the
 earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receiveth the
 early and the latter rain.
5:8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts; for the coming of
 the Lord draweth nigh.
5:9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be
 condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the
 name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and
 of patience.
5:11 Behold, we count them happy who endure. Ye have heard of
 the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that
 the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by
 heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but
 let your yea, be yea: and [your] nay, nay; lest ye fall into
 condemnation.
5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any cheerful?
 let him sing psalms.
5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the
 church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in
 the name of the Lord:
5:15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord
 will raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they will be
 forgiven him.
5:16 Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for
 another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of
 the righteous man availeth much.
5:17 Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he
 prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on
 the earth by the space of three years and six months.
5:18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the
 earth brought forth its fruit.
5:19 Brethren, if any one of you should err from the truth, and
 one should convert him;
5:20 Let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the
 error of his way will save a soul from death, and will hide a
 multitude of sins.