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BSB
Berean Standard Bible
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James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of
the
Dispersion:
Greetings
.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which
are
scattered
abroad,
greeting
.
Consider
it
pure
joy,
my brothers
, when you
encounter
trials
of
many
kinds,
My brethren
, count
it
all
joy
when ye
fall
into
divers
temptations;
because
you
know
that the testing
of your faith develops
perseverance
.
Knowing
this,
that the trying
of your faith worketh
patience
.
Allow
perseverance
to
finish
its
work, so
that you
may be mature
and complete
, not
lacking
anything
.
But
let
patience
have
her
perfect
work, that ye
may be perfect
and entire
, wanting
nothing
.
Now
if any of you lacks
wisdom, he
should
ask God, who
gives
generously
to all without
finding
fault
, and it will
be given to
him.
If any of you lack
wisdom, let
him
ask of
God, that
giveth
to all men
liberally
, and upbraideth
not;
and
it shall
be given him.
But he
must
ask in faith, without
doubting,
because
he who
doubts
is like a wave of the sea ,
blown
and
tossed
by
the wind.
But let
him
ask in faith, nothing
wavering.
For
he that
wavereth
is like a wave of the sea driven
with
the wind and
tossed
.
That man should
not
expect
to
receive anything
from
the Lord.
For
let
not
that man think
that
he
shall
receive any
thing
of
the Lord.
He
is
a double -
minded man ,
unstable in all his ways.
A double minded man is
unstable in all his ways.
The brother in
humble
circumstances
should
exult
in his
high
position.
Let
the brother of
low
degree
rejoice
in that
he
is
exalted:
But the one
who
is
rich should
exult
in his
low position,
because he
will
pass
away
like
a
flower of the field
.
But the rich ,
in that
he
is
made
low :
because as
the
flower of the grass
he
shall
pass
away
.
For the sun rises
with scorching
heat and withers
the plant;
its
flower falls
and its
beauty
is
lost.
So too,
the rich man will
fade away in the
midst
of
his pursuits
.
For the sun is
no
sooner
risen
with a
burning
heat ,
but
it
withereth
the
grass,
and the flower thereof
falleth,
and the
grace
of
the
fashion
of
it
perisheth:
so also
shall
the rich man fade away in his ways
.
Blessed is the man who
perseveres
under
trial,
because
when he has
stood
the
test
, he will
receive the crown of life that
God
has
promised to those
who
love Him.
Blessed is the man that
endureth
temptation:
for
when he is
tried
, he shall
receive the crown of life ,
which
the
Lord
hath
promised to them
that
love him.
When
tempted,
no one
should
say, “
God is
tempting
me.”
For God cannot be tempted by
evil, nor
does
He tempt
anyone.
Let
no man
say when
he
is
tempted
, I
am
tempted
of
God :
for God cannot be tempted with
evil, neither
tempteth
he any
man:
But each
one
is tempted when by
his
own
evil
desires
he is lured
away and enticed.
But every
man
is tempted ,
when he is drawn
away of
his
own
lust,
and enticed.
Then after
desire
has
conceived, it gives
birth
to
sin ;
and sin, when it is full-grown
, gives
birth
to
death.
Then when
lust
hath
conceived, it bringeth
forth
sin :
and sin, when it is finished
, bringeth
forth
death.
Do not be
deceived
, my beloved brothers
.
Do not err
, my beloved brethren
.
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming
down from the Father of the
heavenly
lights, with whom there
is no change
or
shifting
shadow.
Every good gift
and every
perfect gift is from above, and
cometh
down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness,
neither
shadow of
turning
.
He chose
to
give
us birth
through
the word of truth, that we would
be a kind of firstfruits of His creation
.
Of
his
own
will
begat
he us with
the word of truth, that we should
be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures
.
My beloved brothers
, understand
this:
Everyone
should
be quick
to listen
, slow to speak, and
slow to anger,
Wherefore,
my beloved brethren
, let
every
man
be swift
to hear
, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
for man’s
anger
does
not bring
about
the righteousness that
God desires
.
For the
wrath
of
man
worketh
not the righteousness of
God.
Therefore,
get
rid
of
all moral
filth
and every
expression
of evil
, and humbly
accept
the word planted
in
you
, which can
save your souls.
Wherefore
lay
apart
all filthiness
and superfluity
of naughtiness
, and receive
with
meekness
the engrafted
word, which is
able
to
save your souls.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only .
Otherwise
, you
are
deceiving yourselves
.
But
be ye
doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your
own
selves
.
For anyone
who
hears
the word but
does
not carry
it
out
is like a man who
looks
at
his face in a mirror,
For if
any
be
a
hearer
of
the word ,
and
not a
doer,
he
is like unto
a man beholding
his natural
face in a glass:
and
after
observing
himself goes
away
and immediately
forgets
what he looks
like
.
For
he
beholdeth
himself ,
and goeth
his
way,
and
straightway
forgetteth
what manner
of
man
he was
.
But the
one
who
looks
intently
into the perfect law of freedom
, and continues
to
do
so—not
being a forgetful hearer, but an
effective
doer —he
will
be blessed in what
he
does
.
But whoso
looketh
into the perfect law of liberty
, and continueth
therein,
he
being not
a forgetful hearer, but a
doer of
the
work,
this
man
shall
be blessed in his
deed
.
If anyone
considers
himself
religious and yet
does
not bridle
his tongue, he
deceives
his heart and
his
religion is worthless
.
If any
man
among
you
seem
to
be
religious ,
and bridleth
not his tongue, but
deceiveth
his own
heart ,
this
man's
religion is vain
.
Pure and undefiled religion
before our
God and Father is this :
to care
for
orphans
and widows in their distress
, and to keep oneself
from being
polluted
by
the world.
Pure religion
and undefiled before God and the
Father is this ,
To visit
the
fatherless
and widows in their affliction
, and to keep himself
unspotted
from the world.
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