/1-1- JAMES
A SERVANT OF GOD AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
TO THE TWELVE TRIBES WHICH ARE SCATTERED ABROAD
GREETING.
/1-2- MY BRETHREN
COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YE FALL INTO DIVERS TEMPTATIONS
/1-3- KNOWING THIS
THAT THE TRYING OF YOUR FAITH WORKETH PATIENCE.
/1-4- BUT LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK
THAT YE MAY BE PERFECT AND ENTIRE
WANTING NOTHING.
/1-5- 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.
/1-6- 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.
/1-7- FOR LET NOT THAT MAN THINK THAT HE SHALL RECEIVE ANY THING OF THE LORD.
/1-8- A DOUBLE MINDED MAN IS UNSTABLE IN ALL HIS WAYS.
/1-9- LET THE BROTHER OF LOW DEGREE REJOICE IN THAT HE IS EXALTED-
/1-10- BUT THE RICH
IN THAT HE IS MADE LOW- BECAUSE AS THE FLOWER OF THE GRASS HE SHALL PASS AWAY.
/1-11- 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.
/1-12- 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.
/1-13- 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-
/1-14- BUT EVERY MAN IS TEMPTED
WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY OF HIS OWN LUST
AND ENTICED.
/1-15- THEN WHEN LUST HATH CONCEIVED
IT BRINGETH FORTH SIN- AND SIN
WHEN IT IS FINISHED
BRINGETH FORTH DEATH.
/1-16- DO NOT ERR
MY BELOVED BRETHREN.
/1-17- 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.
/1-18- OF HIS OWN WILL BEGAT HE US WITH THE WORD OF TRUTH
THAT WE SHOULD BE A KIND OF FIRSTFRUITS OF HIS CREATURES.
/1-19- WHEREFORE
MY BELOVED BRETHREN
LET EVERY MAN BE SWIFT TO HEAR
SLOW TO SPEAK
SLOW TO WRATH-
/1-20- FOR THE WRATH OF MAN WORKETH NOT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.
/1-21- WHEREFORE LAY APART ALL FILTHINESS AND SUPERFLUITY OF NAUGHTINESS
AND RECEIVE WITH MEEKNESS THE ENGRAFTED WORD
WHICH IS ABLE TO SAVE YOUR SOULS.
/1-22- BUT BE YE DOERS OF THE WORD
AND NOT HEARERS ONLY
DECEIVING YOUR OWN SELVES.
/1-23- 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-
/1-24- FOR HE BEHOLDETH HIMSELF
AND GOETH HIS WAY
AND STRAIGHTWAY FORGETTETH WHAT MANNER OF MAN HE WAS.
/1-25- 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.
/1-26- 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.
/1-27- PURE RELIGION AND UNDEFILED BEFORE GOD AND THE FATHER IS THIS
TO VISIT THE FATHERLESS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR AFFLICTION
AND TO KEEP HIMSELF UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD.
/2-1- MY BRETHREN
HAVE NOT THE FAITH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
THE LORD OF GLORY
WITH RESPECT OF PERSONS.
/2-2- FOR IF THERE COME UNTO YOUR ASSEMBLY A MAN WITH A GOLD RING
IN GOODLY APPAREL
AND THERE COME IN ALSO A POOR MAN IN VILE RAIMENT
/2-3- AND YE HAVE RESPECT TO HIM THAT WEARETH THE GAY CLOTHING
AND SAY UNTO HIM
SIT THOU HERE IN A GOOD PLACE AND SAY TO THE POOR
STAND THOU THERE
OR SIT HERE UNDER MY FOOTSTOOL-
/2-4- ARE YE NOT THEN PARTIAL IN YOURSELVES
AND ARE BECOME JUDGES OF EVIL THOUGHTS?
/2-5- HEARKEN
MY BELOVED BRETHREN
HATH NOT GOD CHOSEN THE POOR OF THIS WORLD RICH IN FAITH
AND HEIRS OF THE KINGDOM WHICH HE HATH PROMISED TO THEM THAT LOVE HIM?
/2-6- BUT YE HAVE DESPISED THE POOR. DO NOT RICH MEN OPPRESS YOU
AND DRAW YOU BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEATS?
/2-7- DO NOT THEY BLASPHEME THAT WORTHY NAME BY THE WHICH YE ARE CALLED?
/2-8- IF YE FULFIL THE ROYAL LAW ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE
THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF
YE DO WELL-
/2-9- BUT IF YE HAVE RESPECT TO PERSONS
YE COMMIT SIN
AND ARE CONVINCED OF THE LAW AS TRANSGRESSORS.
/2-10- FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW
AND YET OFFEND IN ONE POINT
HE IS GUILTY OF ALL.
/2-11- FOR HE THAT SAID
DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY
SAID ALSO
DO NOT KILL. NOW IF THOU COMMIT NO ADULTERY
YET IF THOU KILL
THOU ART BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW.
/2-12- SO SPEAK YE
AND SO DO
AS THEY THAT SHALL BE JUDGED BY THE LAW OF LIBERTY.
/2-13- FOR HE SHALL HAVE JUDGMENT WITHOUT MERCY
THAT HATH SHEWED NO MERCY AND MERCY REJOICETH AGAINST JUDGMENT.
/2-14- WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT
MY BRETHREN
THOUGH A MAN SAY HE HATH FAITH
AND HAVE NOT WORKS? CAN FAITH SAVE HIM?
/2-15- IF A BROTHER OR SISTER BE NAKED
AND DESTITUTE OF DAILY FOOD
/2-16- AND ONE OF YOU SAY UNTO THEM
DEPART IN PEACE
BE YE WARMED AND FILLED NOTWITHSTANDING YE GIVE THEM NOT THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NEEDFUL TO THE BODY WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT?
/2-17- EVEN SO FAITH
IF IT HATH NOT WORKS
IS DEAD
BEING ALONE.
/2-18- YEA
A MAN MAY SAY
THOU HAST FAITH
AND I HAVE WORKS- SHEW ME THY FAITH WITHOUT THY WORKS
AND I WILL SHEW THEE MY FAITH BY MY WORKS.
/2-19- THOU BELIEVEST THAT THERE IS ONE GOD THOU DOEST WELL- THE DEVILS ALSO BELIEVE
AND TREMBLE.
/2-20- BUT WILT THOU KNOW
O VAIN MAN
THAT FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD?
/2-21- WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER JUSTIFIED BY WORKS
WHEN HE HAD OFFERED ISAAC HIS SON UPON THE ALTAR?
/2-22- SEEST THOU HOW FAITH WROUGHT WITH HIS WORKS
AND BY WORKS WAS FAITH MADE PERFECT?
/2-23- AND THE SCRIPTURE WAS FULFILLED WHICH SAITH
ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD
AND IT WAS IMPUTED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS- AND HE WAS CALLED THE FRIEND OF GOD.
/2-24- YE SEE THEN HOW THAT BY WORKS A MAN IS JUSTIFIED
AND NOT BY FAITH ONLY.
/2-25- LIKEWISE ALSO WAS NOT RAHAB THE HARLOT JUSTIFIED BY WORKS
WHEN SHE HAD RECEIVED THE MESSENGERS
AND HAD SENT THEM OUT ANOTHER WAY?
/2-26- FOR AS THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD
SO FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD ALSO.
/3-1- MY BRETHREN
BE NOT MANY MASTERS
KNOWING THAT WE SHALL RECEIVE THE GREATER CONDEMNATION.
/3-2- FOR IN MANY THINGS WE OFFEND ALL. IF ANY MAN OFFEND NOT IN WORD
THE SAME IS A PERFECT MAN
AND ABLE ALSO TO BRIDLE THE WHOLE BODY.
/3-3- BEHOLD
WE PUT BITS IN THE HORSES' MOUTHS
THAT THEY MAY OBEY US AND WE TURN ABOUT THEIR WHOLE BODY.
/3-4- BEHOLD ALSO THE SHIPS
WHICH THOUGH THEY BE SO GREAT
AND ARE DRIVEN OF FIERCE WINDS
YET ARE THEY TURNED ABOUT WITH A VERY SMALL HELM
WHITHERSOEVER THE GOVERNOR LISTETH.
/3-5- EVEN SO THE TONGUE IS A LITTLE MEMBER
AND BOASTETH GREAT THINGS. BEHOLD
HOW GREAT A MATTER A LITTLE FIRE KINDLETH!
/3-6- AND THE TONGUE IS A FIRE
A WORLD OF INIQUITY- SO IS THE TONGUE AMONG OUR MEMBERS
THAT IT DEFILETH THE WHOLE BODY
AND SETTETH ON FIRE THE COURSE OF NATURE AND IT IS SET ON FIRE OF HELL.
/3-7- FOR EVERY KIND OF BEASTS
AND OF BIRDS
AND OF SERPENTS
AND OF THINGS IN THE SEA
IS TAMED
AND HATH BEEN TAMED OF MANKIND-
/3-8- BUT THE TONGUE CAN NO MAN TAME IT IS AN UNRULY EVIL
FULL OF DEADLY POISON.
/3-9- THEREWITH BLESS WE GOD
EVEN THE FATHER AND THEREWITH CURSE WE MEN
WHICH ARE MADE AFTER THE SIMILITUDE OF GOD.
/3-10- OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH PROCEEDETH BLESSING AND CURSING. MY BRETHREN
THESE THINGS OUGHT NOT SO TO BE.
/3-11- DOTH A FOUNTAIN SEND FORTH AT THE SAME PLACE SWEET WATER AND BITTER?
/3-12- CAN THE FIG TREE
MY BRETHREN
BEAR OLIVE BERRIES? EITHER A VINE
FIGS? SO CAN NO FOUNTAIN BOTH YIELD SALT WATER AND FRESH.
/3-13- WHO IS A WISE MAN AND ENDUED WITH KNOWLEDGE AMONG YOU? LET HIM SHEW OUT OF A GOOD CONVERSATION HIS WORKS WITH MEEKNESS OF WISDOM.
/3-14- BUT IF YE HAVE BITTER ENVYING AND STRIFE IN YOUR HEARTS
GLORY NOT
AND LIE NOT AGAINST THE TRUTH.
/3-15- THIS WISDOM DESCENDETH NOT FROM ABOVE
BUT IS EARTHLY
SENSUAL
DEVILISH.
/3-16- FOR WHERE ENVYING AND STRIFE IS
THERE IS CONFUSION AND EVERY EVIL WORK.
/3-17- BUT THE WISDOM THAT IS FROM ABOVE IS FIRST PURE
THEN PEACEABLE
GENTLE
AND EASY TO BE INTREATED
FULL OF MERCY AND GOOD FRUITS
WITHOUT PARTIALITY
AND WITHOUT HYPOCRISY.
/3-18- AND THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SOWN IN PEACE OF THEM THAT MAKE PEACE.
/4-1- FROM WHENCE COME WARS AND FIGHTINGS AMONG YOU? COME THEY NOT HENCE
EVEN OF YOUR LUSTS THAT WAR IN YOUR MEMBERS?
/4-2- YE LUST
AND HAVE NOT- YE KILL
AND DESIRE TO HAVE
AND CANNOT OBTAIN- YE FIGHT AND WAR
YET YE HAVE NOT
BECAUSE YE ASK NOT.
/4-3- YE ASK
AND RECEIVE NOT
BECAUSE YE ASK AMISS
THAT YE MAY CONSUME IT UPON YOUR LUSTS.
/4-4- YE ADULTERERS AND ADULTERESSES
KNOW YE NOT THAT THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD IS ENMITY WITH GOD? WHOSOEVER THEREFORE WILL BE A FRIEND OF THE WORLD IS THE ENEMY OF GOD.
/4-5- DO YE THINK THAT THE SCRIPTURE SAITH IN VAIN
THE SPIRIT THAT DWELLETH IN US LUSTETH TO ENVY?
/4-6- BUT HE GIVETH MORE GRACE. WHEREFORE HE SAITH
GOD RESISTETH THE PROUD
BUT GIVETH GRACE UNTO THE HUMBLE.
/4-7- SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD. RESIST THE DEVIL
AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
/4-8- DRAW NIGH TO GOD
AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU. CLEANSE YOUR HANDS
YE SINNERS AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS
YE DOUBLE MINDED.
/4-9- BE AFFLICTED
AND MOURN
AND WEEP- LET YOUR LAUGHTER BE TURNED TO MOURNING
AND YOUR JOY TO HEAVINESS.
/4-10- HUMBLE YOURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD
AND HE SHALL LIFT YOU UP.
/4-11- SPEAK NOT EVIL ONE OF ANOTHER
BRETHREN. HE THAT SPEAKETH EVIL OF HIS BROTHER
AND JUDGETH HIS BROTHER
SPEAKETH EVIL OF THE LAW
AND JUDGETH THE LAW- BUT IF THOU JUDGE THE LAW
THOU ART NOT A DOER OF THE LAW
BUT A JUDGE.
/4-12- THERE IS ONE LAWGIVER
WHO IS ABLE TO SAVE AND TO DESTROY- WHO ART THOU THAT JUDGEST ANOTHER?
/4-13- GO TO NOW
YE THAT SAY
TO DAY OR TO MORROW WE WILL GO INTO SUCH A CITY
AND CONTINUE THERE A YEAR
AND BUY AND SELL
AND GET GAIN-
/4-14- WHEREAS YE KNOW NOT WHAT SHALL BE ON THE MORROW. FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOUR
THAT APPEARETH FOR A LITTLE TIME
AND THEN VANISHETH AWAY.
/4-15- FOR THAT YE OUGHT TO SAY
IF THE LORD WILL
WE SHALL LIVE
AND DO THIS
OR THAT.
/4-16- BUT NOW YE REJOICE IN YOUR BOASTINGS- ALL SUCH REJOICING IS EVIL.
/4-17- THEREFORE TO HIM THAT KNOWETH TO DO GOOD
AND DOETH IT NOT
TO HIM IT IS SIN.
/5-1- GO TO NOW
YE RICH MEN
WEEP AND HOWL FOR YOUR MISERIES THAT SHALL COME UPON YOU.
/5-2- YOUR RICHES ARE CORRUPTED
AND YOUR GARMENTS ARE MOTHEATEN.
/5-3- YOUR GOLD AND SILVER IS CANKERED AND THE RUST OF THEM SHALL BE A WITNESS AGAINST YOU
AND SHALL EAT YOUR FLESH AS IT WERE FIRE. YE HAVE HEAPED TREASURE TOGETHER FOR THE LAST DAYS.
/5-4- BEHOLD
THE HIRE OF THE LABOURERS WHO HAVE REAPED DOWN YOUR FIELDS
WHICH IS OF YOU KEPT BACK BY FRAUD
CRIETH- AND THE CRIES OF THEM WHICH HAVE REAPED ARE ENTERED INTO THE EARS OF THE LORD OF SABAOTH.
/5-5- YE HAVE LIVED IN PLEASURE ON THE EARTH
AND BEEN WANTON YE HAVE NOURISHED YOUR HEARTS
AS IN A DAY OF SLAUGHTER.
/5-6- YE HAVE CONDEMNED AND KILLED THE JUST AND HE DOTH NOT RESIST YOU.
/5-7- BE PATIENT THEREFORE
BRETHREN
UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD. BEHOLD
THE HUSBANDMAN WAITETH FOR THE PRECIOUS FRUIT OF THE EARTH
AND HATH LONG PATIENCE FOR IT
UNTIL HE RECEIVE THE EARLY AND LATTER RAIN.
/5-8- BE YE ALSO PATIENT STABLISH YOUR HEARTS- FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD DRAWETH NIGH.
/5-9- GRUDGE NOT ONE AGAINST ANOTHER
BRETHREN
LEST YE BE CONDEMNED- BEHOLD
THE JUDGE STANDETH BEFORE THE DOOR.
/5-10- TAKE
MY BRETHREN
THE PROPHETS
WHO HAVE SPOKEN IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
FOR AN EXAMPLE OF SUFFERING AFFLICTION
AND OF PATIENCE.
/5-11- BEHOLD
WE COUNT THEM HAPPY WHICH ENDURE. YE HAVE HEARD OF THE PATIENCE OF JOB
AND HAVE SEEN THE END OF THE LORD THAT THE LORD IS VERY PITIFUL
AND OF TENDER MERCY.
/5-12- BUT ABOVE ALL THINGS
MY BRETHREN
SWEAR NOT
NEITHER BY HEAVEN
NEITHER BY THE EARTH
NEITHER BY ANY OTHER OATH- BUT LET YOUR YEA BE YEA AND YOUR NAY
NAY LEST YE FALL INTO CONDEMNATION.
/5-13- IS ANY AMONG YOU AFFLICTED? LET HIM PRAY. IS ANY MERRY? LET HIM SING PSALMS.
/5-14- IS ANY SICK AMONG YOU? LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH AND LET THEM PRAY OVER HIM
ANOINTING HIM WITH OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD-
/5-15- AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH SHALL SAVE THE SICK
AND THE LORD SHALL RAISE HIM UP AND IF HE HAVE COMMITTED SINS
THEY SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM.
/5-16- CONFESS YOUR FAULTS ONE TO ANOTHER
AND PRAY ONE FOR ANOTHER
THAT YE MAY BE HEALED. THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILETH MUCH.
/5-17- ELIAS WAS A MAN SUBJECT TO LIKE PASSIONS AS WE ARE
AND HE PRAYED EARNESTLY THAT IT MIGHT NOT RAIN- AND IT RAINED NOT ON THE EARTH BY THE SPACE OF THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS.
/5-18- AND HE PRAYED AGAIN
AND THE HEAVEN GAVE RAIN
AND THE EARTH BROUGHT FORTH HER FRUIT.
/5-19- BRETHREN
IF ANY OF YOU DO ERR FROM THE TRUTH
AND ONE CONVERT HIM
/5-20- LET HIM KNOW
THAT HE WHICH CONVERTETH THE SINNER FROM THE ERROR OF HIS WAY SHALL SAVE A SOUL FROM DEATH
AND SHALL HIDE A MULTITUDE OF SINS.
