| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position; |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. |
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