ULT YAC Chapter 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the dispersion: Rejoice! 2 Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 But let the endurance have a perfect work, so that you may be perfect and whole, lacking in nothing. 5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, the one giving to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for the one doubting has become like a wave of the sea, wind-blown and tossed. 7 For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord, 8 a double-minded man, unsettled in all his ways. 9 Now let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 10 but the rich in his lowliness, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass. 11 For the sun rose with the heat and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off and the beauty of its face perished. Thus also the rich will wither in his journeys. 12 Blessed is a man who endures trial. For, becoming approved, he will receive the crown of life, which he promised to the ones loving him. 13 Let no one being tempted say, “I am tempted by God,” because God is untempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each one is tempted by his own desire, dragged away and enticed. 15 Then the desire, having conceived, bears sin, and the sin, having grown up, gives birth to death. 16 Do not be led astray, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good present and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning. 18 Having willed, he gave birth to us by the word of truth, for us to be something like a firstfruits of his creatures. 19 Know, my beloved brothers: But let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger. 20 For anger of man does not work the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore, having laid aside all filth and abundance of wickedness, in humility receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word and not only hearers, deluding yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man beholding the face of his birth in a mirror. 24 For he beheld himself and went away and immediately forgot of what sort he was. 25 But the one having gazed into the perfect law of freedom and having continued, not having become a hearer of forgetfulness, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his doing. 26 If anyone thinks to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of that one is worthless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to look upon orphans and widows in their distress, to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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