James 1:1-14 ▼

1 Iames the seruaut of God and of the Lorde Iesus Christ sendeth gretinge to ye .xii. trybes which are scattered here and there.

2 My brethren count it excedynge ioye when ye faule into divers teptacions

3 for as moche as ye knowe how that the tryinge of youre fayth bringeth pacience:

4 and let pacience have her parfect worke that ye maye be parfecte and sounde lackinge nothinge.

5 Yf eny of you lacke wysdome let him axe of God which geveth to all men indifferentlie and casteth no man in the teth: and it shal be geven him.

6 But let him axe in fayth and waver not. For he that douteth is lyke the waves of the see tost of the wynde and caried with violence.

7 Nether let that man thinke that he shall receave eny thinge of the Lorde.

8 A waveringe mynded man is vnstable in all his wayes.

9 Let the brother of lowe degre reioyce in yt he is exalted

10 and the ryche in that he is made lowe. For eve as ye flower of the grasse shall he vanysshe awaye.

11 The sonne ryseth with heate and the grasse wydereth and his flower falleth awaye and the beautie of the fassion of it perissheth: even so shall the ryche man perisshe with his aboundance.

12 Happy is the man that endureth in temptacion for when he is tryed he shall receave the croune of lyfe which the Lorde hath promysed to them that love him.

13 Let no man saye when he is tepted that he is tempted of God. For God tepteth not vnto evyll nether tepteth he anie ma.

14 But every ma is tepted drawne awaye and entysed of his awne concupiscece.