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

² My brethren, count it all joy, when ye fall into divers temptations, Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.³ But let patience have it's perfect work,⁴ that ye may be perfect and intire, wanting nothing.⁵ If any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.⁶ But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth 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 from the Lord.⁸ A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.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 arose with a burning heat, and withered the grass, and the flower fell off, and the beauty of it's appearance perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.¹² Happy is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

¹³ Let no man when he is tempted say, 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 by his own desire and inticed.¹⁵ Then desire having conceived, bringeth forth sin; and sin being perfected, bringeth forth death.¹⁶ Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,¹⁷ descending from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.¹⁸ Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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 Therefore laying aside all the filthiness and superfluity of wickedness, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.²² But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves:²³ For if any one be an hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass.²⁴ For he beheld himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what manner of man he was.²⁵ But whoso looketh diligently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and continueth therein, this man being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this man shall be happy in his doing.²⁶ If any one be ever so 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 unspoted from the world.