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{\MT The Letter from James

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}James
the
servant
of
God,
and
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
to
the
twelve
tribes
which
are
scattered
abroad,
greeting.
\VS{2}My
brethren,
count
it
all
joy,
when
you shall fall into divers temptations;
\VS{3}Knowing
that
the trying
of
your
faith worketh
patience.
\VS{4}And
patience hath
a
perfect
work;
that
you
may
be
perfect
and entire, failing
in
nothing.
\VS{5}But
if
any
of
you want
wisdom, let
him
ask
of
God,
who giveth
to
all
men abundantly,
and upbraideth
not;
and
it
shall
be
given
him.
\VS{6}But let
him
ask
in
faith,
nothing wavering.
For
he
that wavereth
is like
a wave
of
the
sea,
which
is moved
and carried
about
by
the
wind.
\VS{7}Therefore let
not
that
man think
that
he
shall
receive
any thing
of
the
Lord.
\VS{8}A double minded
man
is inconstant
in
all
his
ways.
\VS{9}But let
the
brother
of low condition
glory
in
his exaltation:
\VS{10}And
the
rich,
in
his being low;
because
as
the
flower
of
the
grass shall
he
pass
away.
\VS{11}For
the
sun rose
with
a burning
heat,
and parched
the
grass,
and
the
flower thereof fell off,
and
the
beauty
of
the shape thereof
perished:
so
also
shall
the
rich
man
fade
away
in
his ways.
\VS{12}Blessed
is
the
man
that endureth
temptation;
for
when
he hath
been
proved,
he shall
receive
a
crown
of
life,
which
God hath
promised
to
them
that
love
him.
\VS{13}Let
no
man,
when
he
is
tempted,
say
that
he
is
tempted
by
God.
For
God
is
not
a
tempter
of
evils,
and
he tempteth
no
man.
\VS{14}But
every
man
is
tempted
by
his
own concupiscence, being drawn
away
and allured.
\VS{15}Then
when concupiscence hath
conceived,
it bringeth
forth
sin.
But
sin,
when
it
is completed, begetteth
death.
\VS{16}Do
not err, therefore,
my dearest
brethren.
\VS{17}Every best
gift,
and
every
perfect
gift,
is
from
above,
coming
down
from
the
Father
of
lights,
with
whom
there
is
no change,
nor
shadow
of alteration.
\VS{18}For
of
his
own
will hath
he begotten
us
by
the
word
of
truth,
that
we
might
be
some beginning
of
his
creatures.
\VS{19}You
know,
my dearest
brethren.
And
let
every
man
be swift
to
hear,
but
slow
to
speak,
and
slow
to
anger.
\VS{20}For
the
anger
of
man worketh
not
the
justice
of
God.
\VS{21}Wherefore casting away
all uncleanness,
and
abundance
of naughtiness,
with
meekness
receive
the ingrafted
word,
which
is
able
to
save
your
souls.
\VS{22}But
be ye
doers
of
the
word,
and
not
hearers
only, deceiving
your
own selves.
\VS{23}For
if
a
man
be
a
hearer
of
the
word,
and
not
a
doer,
he
shall
be
compared
to
a
man beholding
his
own countenance
in
a glass.
\VS{24}For
he beheld
himself,
and
went
his
way,
and presently forgot
what manner
of man
he
was.
\VS{25}But
he
that hath
looked
into
the
perfect
law
of
liberty,
and hath continued therein,
not
becoming
a
forgetful
hearer,
but
a
doer
of
the
work;
this
man
shall
be
blessed
in
his
deed.
\VS{26}And
if
any
man
think
himself
to
be
religious,
not bridling
his
tongue,
but deceiving
his
own
heart,
this
man’s
religion
is
vain.
\VS{27}Religion
clean
and
undefiled
before
God
and
the
Father,
is
this:
to
visit
the fatherless
and
widows
in
their
tribulation:
and
to
keep
one’s self unspotted
from
this
world.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}My
brethren,
have
not
the
faith
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
of
glory
with respect
of persons.
\VS{2}For
if
there
shall
come
into
your
assembly
a
man having
a golden
ring,
in
fine
apparel,
and
there
shall
come
in
also
a
poor
man
in mean
attire,
\VS{3}And
you
have respect
to
him
that
is clothed
with
the
fine
apparel,
and
shall
say
to
him:
Sit thou
here
well;
but
say
to
the
poor
man:
Stand thou
there,
or
sit
under
my
footstool:
\VS{4}Do
you
not
judge
within
yourselves,
and
are
become
judges
of unjust
thoughts?
\VS{5}Hearken,
my dearest
brethren: hath
not
God
chosen
the
poor
in
this
world,
rich
in
faith,
and
heirs
of
the
kingdom
which
God hath
promised
to
them
that
love
him?
\VS{6}But
you
have dishonoured
the
poor
man.
Do
not
the
rich oppress
you
by
might?
and
do
not
they
draw
you
before
the judgment seats?
\VS{7}Do
not
they
blaspheme
the
good
name
that
is invoked
upon
you?
\VS{8}If then
you fulfill
the
royal
law,
according
to
the
scriptures, Thou shalt
love thy neighbour
as thyself;
you
do
well.
\VS{9}But
if
you
have respect
to persons,
you commit
sin, being
reproved
by
the
law
as
transgressors.
\VS{10}And whosoever shall
keep
the
whole
law,
but offend
in
one point,
is
become
guilty
of
all.
\VS{11}For
he
that
said, Thou shalt
not
commit
adultery,
said
also, Thou shalt
not kill.
Now
if thou
do
not
commit
adultery,
but shalt kill, thou art
become
a
transgressor
of
the
law.
\VS{12}So
speak ye,
and
so
do,
as being
to
be
judged
by
the
law
of
liberty.
\VS{13}For
judgment
without
mercy
to
him
that hath
not
done
mercy.
And
mercy exalteth itself above
judgment.
\VS{14}What shall
it
profit,
my
brethren,
if
a
man
say
he hath
faith,
but hath
not
works? Shall
faith
be
able
to
save
him?
\VS{15}And
if
a
brother
or
sister
be
naked,
and want
daily
food:
\VS{16}And
one
of
you
say
to
them:
Go
in
peace,
be ye
warmed
and
filled;
yet
give
them
not
those
things
that
are
necessary
for
the
body,
what
shall
it
profit?
\VS{17}So
faith
also,
if
it
have
not
works,
is
dead
in
itself.
\VS{18}But
some
man
will
say: Thou hast
faith,
and
I
have
works: shew
me thy
faith
without
works;
and
I
will shew thee,
by
works,
my
faith.
\VS{19}Thou believest
that
there
is
one
God. Thou dost
well:
the devils
also
believe
and tremble.
\VS{20}But wilt thou
know,
O
vain
man,
that
faith
without
works
is dead?
\VS{21}Was
not
Abraham
our
father
justified
by
works, offering
up
Isaac
his
son
upon
the
altar?
\VS{22}Seest thou,
that
faith did co-operate
with
his
works;
and
by
works
faith
was
made
perfect?
\VS{23}And
the
scripture
was
fulfilled,
saying:
Abraham
believed
God,
and
it
was reputed
to
him
to
justice,
and
he
was
called
the
friend
of
God.
\VS{24}Do
you
see
that
by
works
a
man
is
justified;
and
not
by
faith
only?
\VS{25}And
in
like
manner
also
Rahab
the
harlot,
was
not she
justified
by
works, receiving
the
messengers,
and sending
them
out
another
way?
\VS{26}For
even
as
the
body
without
the
spirit
is
dead;
so
also
faith
without
works
is
dead.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Be ye
not
many masters,
my
brethren,
knowing
that
you
receive
the
greater
judgment.
\VS{2}For
in
many
things
we
all offend.
If
any
man offend
not
in
word,
the
same
is
a
perfect
man.
He
is
able
also
with
a
bridle
to lead
about
the
whole
body.
\VS{3}For
if
we
put
bits
into
the
mouths
of
horses,
that
they
may
obey
us,
and
we turn
about
their
whole
body.
\VS{4}Behold
also
ships,
whereas
they
are
great,
and
are
driven
by
strong
winds,
yet
are
they turned
about
with
a
small helm, whithersoever
the force
of
the governor willeth.
\VS{5}Even
so
the
tongue
is
indeed
a
little
member,
and boasteth
great
things.
Behold
how
small
a
fire kindleth
a
great wood.
\VS{6}And
the
tongue
is
a
fire,
a
world
of
iniquity.
The
tongue
is placed
among
our
members,
which defileth
the
whole
body,
and inflameth
the wheel
of
our nativity, being
set
on
fire
by
hell.
\VS{7}For
every
nature
of
beasts,
and
of
birds,
and
of serpents,
and
of
the rest,
is
tamed,
and hath
been
tamed,
by
the
nature
of
man:
\VS{8}But
the
tongue
no
man
can
tame,
an unquiet
evil,
full
of
deadly
poison.
\VS{9}By
it
we
bless
God
and
the
Father:
and
by
it
we
curse
men,
who
are
made
after
the
likeness
of
God.
\VS{10}Out
of
the
same
mouth proceedeth
blessing
and
cursing.
My
brethren,
these
things
ought
not
so
to
be.
\VS{11}Doth
a
fountain
send forth,
out
of
the
same hole,
sweet
and
bitter water?
\VS{12}Can
the
fig
tree,
my
brethren,
bear grapes;
or
the
vine,
figs?
So
neither
can
the
salt
water yield
sweet.
\VS{13}Who
is
a
wise
man,
and endued
with knowledge
among
you? Let
him shew,
by
a
good conversation,
his
work
in
the
meekness
of
wisdom.
\VS{14}But
if
you
have
bitter
zeal,
and
there
be contentions
in
your
hearts; glory
not,
and
be
not liars
against
the
truth.
\VS{15}For
this
is
not
wisdom, descending
from
above:
but
earthly, sensual, devilish.
\VS{16}For
where envying
and contention
is,
there
is inconstancy,
and
every
evil work.
\VS{17}But
the
wisdom,
that
is
from
above,
first
indeed
is
chaste,
then
peaceable, modest, easy
to
be persuaded, consenting
to
the
good,
full
of
mercy
and
good
fruits,
without judging,
without dissimulation.
\VS{18}And
the
fruit
of
justice
is
sown
in
peace,
to
them
that
make
peace.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}From whence
are
wars
and contentions
among
you?
Are
they
not
hence,
from
your concupiscences,
which
war
in
your
members?
\VS{2}You
covet,
and
have
not:
you kill,
and
envy,
and
can
not
obtain.
You contend
and
war,
and
you
have
not,
because
you
ask
not.
\VS{3}You
ask,
and
receive
not;
because
you
ask amiss:
that
you
may consume
it
on
your concupiscences.
\VS{4}Adulterers,
know
you
not
that
the
friendship
of
this
world
is
the
enemy
of
God? Whosoever
therefore
will
be
a
friend
of
this
world, becometh
an
enemy
of
God.
\VS{5}Or
do
you
think
that
the
scripture saith
in vain:
To
envy doth
the
spirit covet
which dwelleth
in
you?
\VS{6}But
he giveth
greater
grace.
Wherefore
he saith:
God resisteth
the
proud,
and giveth
grace
to
the
humble.
\VS{7}Be
subject
therefore
to
God,
but
resist
the
devil,
and
he
will fly
from
you.
\VS{8}Draw nigh
to
God,
and
he
will
draw nigh
to
you.
Cleanse
your
hands, ye
sinners:
and
purify
your
hearts, ye double minded.
\VS{9}Be afflicted,
and
mourn,
and
weep: let
your
laughter
be
turned
into
mourning,
and
your
joy
into sorrow.
\VS{10}Be
humbled
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord,
and
he
will
exalt
you.
\VS{11}Detract
not
one
another,
my
brethren.
He
that detracteth
his
brother,
or
he
that judgeth
his
brother, detracteth
the
law,
and judgeth
the
law.
But
if thou
judge
the
law, thou art
not
a
doer
of
the
law,
but
a
judge.
\VS{12}There
is
one
lawgiver,
and
judge,
that
is
able
to
destroy
and
to
deliver.
\VS{13}But
who art thou
that judgest thy neighbour? Behold,
now
you
that
say:
Today
or
tomorrow
we
will
go
into
such
a
city,
and
there
we
will
spend
a
year,
and
will traffic,
and
make
our
gain.
\VS{14}Whereas
you
know
not
what
shall
be
on
the morrow.
\VS{15}For
what
is
your
life?
It
is
a vapour
which appeareth
for
a little
while,
and afterwards
shall vanish away.
For
that
you
should
say:
If
the
Lord
will,
and
if
we
shall
live,
we
will
do
this
or
that.
\VS{16}But
now
you
rejoice
in
your arrogancies.
All
such rejoicing
is
wicked.
\VS{17}To
him
therefore
who knoweth
to
do
good,
and doth
it
not,
to
him
it
is
sin.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Go
to
now, ye
rich men,
weep
and
howl
in
your
miseries,
which shall
come
upon
you.
\VS{2}Your
riches
are corrupted:
and
your
garments
are motheaten.
\VS{3}Your
gold
and
silver
is cankered:
and
the
rust
of
them
shall
be
for
a
testimony
against
you,
and
shall
eat
your
flesh
like
fire.
You
have
stored
up
to
yourselves wrath
against
the
last
days.
\VS{4}Behold
the hire
of
the labourers,
who
have
reaped down
your
fields,
which
by fraud
has
been kept
back
by
you, crieth:
and
the
cry
of
them hath
entered
into
the
ears
of
the
Lord
of
Sabaoth.
\VS{5}You
have feasted
upon
earth:
and
in riotousness
you
have
nourished
your
hearts,
in
the
day
of
slaughter.
\VS{6}You
have condemned
and
put
to
death
the
Just
One,
and he
resisted
you
not.
\VS{7}Be
patient
therefore,
brethren,
until
the
coming
of
the
Lord.
Behold,
the husbandman waiteth
for
the
precious
fruit
of
the
earth:
patiently bearing till
he
receive
the early
and latter rain.
\VS{8}Be
you therefore
also
patient,
and
strengthen
your
hearts:
for
the
coming
of
the
Lord
is
at
hand.
\VS{9}Grudge
not,
brethren,
one
against
another,
that
you
may
not
be
judged.
Behold
the
judge standeth
before
the
door.
\VS{10}Take,
my
brethren,
for
an
example
of
suffering evil,
of labour
and
patience,
the
prophets,
who
spoke
in
the
name
of
the
Lord.
\VS{11}Behold,
we account
them
blessed
who
have
endured.
You
have
heard
of
the
patience
of Job,
and
you
have
seen
the
end
of
the
Lord,
that
the
Lord
is
merciful
and compassionate.
\VS{12}But
above
all
things,
my
brethren,
swear
not,
neither
by
heaven,
nor
by
the
earth,
nor
by
any
other
oath.
But
let
your speech
be, yea, yea:
no,
no:
that
you
fall
not
under
judgment.
\VS{13}Is
any
of
you sad? Let
him
pray.
Is
he
cheerful
in mind? Let
him
sing.
\VS{14}Is
any
man
sick
among
you? Let
him bring
in
the priests
of
the
church,
and let
them
pray
over
him, anointing
him
with
oil
in
the
name
of
the
Lord.
\VS{15}And
the
prayer
of
faith
shall
save
the
sick
man:
and
the
Lord
shall
raise
him
up:
and
if
he
be
in
sins,
they
shall
be
forgiven
him.
\VS{16}Confess
therefore
your
sins
one
to
another:
and
pray
one
for
another,
that
you
may
be saved.
For
the continual
prayer
of
a
just
man availeth
much.
\VS{17}Elias
was
a
man passible
like unto
us:
and
with
prayer
he
prayed
that
it
might
not
rain
upon
the
earth,
and
it
rained
not
for
three
years
and
six
months.
\VS{18}And
he
prayed
again:
and
the
heaven
gave
rain,
and
the
earth brought forth
her
fruit.
\VS{19}My
brethren,
if
any
of
you err
from
the
truth,
and
one convert
him:
\VS{20}He
must
know
that
he
who causeth
a
sinner
to
be converted
from
the
error
of
his
way,
shall
save
his
soul
from
death,
and
shall
cover
a
multitude
of
sins.
\par }