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{\MT THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF JAMES



\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}James, a
servant of
God
and of the
Lord
Jesus
Christ, to
the
twelve
tribes which
are scattered
abroad,
greeting.


\par }{\PP \VS{2}My
brethren, count
it
all
joy
when ye fall
into
divers
temptations;

\VS{3}Knowing
{\ADD{this}},
that the
trying of
your
faith
worketh
patience.

\VS{4}But let
patience
have
{\ADD{her}}
perfect
work,
that ye may
be
perfect
and
entire,
wanting
nothing.

\VS{5}If
any of
you
lack
wisdom, let him
ask
of
God, that
giveth to
all
{\ADD{men}}
liberally,
and
upbraideth
not;
and it shall be
given
him.

\VS{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.

\VS{7}For let
not
that
man
think
that he shall
receive any
thing
of the
Lord.

\VS{8}A double
minded
man
{\ADD{is}}
unstable
in
all
his
ways.

\VS{9}Let the
brother of low
degree
rejoice
in that
he is
exalted:

\VS{10}But the
rich,
in that
he is made
low:
because
as the
flower of the
grass he shall pass
away.

\VS{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.

\VS{12}Blessed
{\ADD{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.

\VS{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:

\VS{14}But every
man is
tempted, when he is drawn
away
of his
own
lust,
and
enticed.

\VS{15}Then
when
lust hath
conceived, it bringeth
forth
sin:
and
sin, when it is
finished, bringeth
forth
death.

\VS{16}Do
not
err,
my
beloved
brethren.

\VS{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.

\VS{18}Of his own
will begat
he
us with the
word of
truth, that
we should
be a
kind of
firstfruits of
his
creatures.


\par }{\PP \VS{19}Wherefore,
my
beloved
brethren, let
every
man
be
swift
to
hear,
slow
to
speak,
slow
to
wrath:

\VS{20}For the
wrath of
man
worketh
not the
righteousness of
God.

\VS{21}Wherefore lay
apart
all
filthiness
and
superfluity of
naughtiness, and
receive
with
meekness the
engrafted
word,
which is
able to
save
your
souls.

\VS{22}But
be ye
doers of the
word,
and
not
hearers
only,
deceiving your own
selves.

\VS{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:

\VS{24}For he
beholdeth
himself,
and goeth his
way,
and
straightway
forgetteth what manner of
man he
was.

\VS{25}But whoso
looketh
into the
perfect
law of
liberty,
and
continueth
{\ADD{therein}},
he
being
not a
forgetful
hearer,
but a
doer of the
work, this
man shall
be
blessed
in
his
deed.

\VS{26}If any
man
among
you
seem to
be
religious, and
bridleth
not
his
tongue,
but
deceiveth his
own
heart, this
man’s
religion
{\ADD{is}}
vain.

\VS{27}Pure
religion
and
undefiled
before
God
and the
Father
is
this, To
visit the
fatherless
and
widows
in
their
affliction,
{\ADD{and}} to
keep
himself
unspotted
from the
world.




\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}My
brethren,
have
not the
faith of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
{\ADD{the Lord}} of
glory,
with respect of
persons.

\VS{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;

\VS{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:

\VS{4}Are
ye
not
then
partial
in
yourselves,
and are
become
judges of
evil
thoughts?

\VS{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?

\VS{6}But
ye have
despised the
poor.
Do
not rich
men
oppress
you,
and
draw
you
before the judgment
seats?

\VS{7}Do
not
they
blaspheme that
worthy
name
by the
which
ye are
called?

\VS{8}If ye
fulfil the
royal
law according
to the
scripture, Thou shalt
love
thy
neighbour
as
thyself, ye
do
well:

\VS{9}But
if ye have respect to
persons, ye
commit
sin, and are
convinced
of the
law
as
transgressors.

\VS{10}For
whosoever shall
keep the
whole
law, and
yet
offend
in
one
{\ADD{point}}, he
is guilty
of
all.

\VS{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.

\VS{12}So speak
ye,
and
so
do,
as they that
shall be
judged
by the
law of
liberty.

\VS{13}For
he shall have
judgment without
mercy, that hath
shewed
no
mercy;
and
mercy rejoiceth
against
judgment.

\VS{14}What
{\ADD{doth it}}
profit,
my
brethren,
though a
man
say he
hath
faith,
and
have
not
works?
can
faith
save
him?

\VS{15}If a
brother
or
sister
be
naked,
and
destitute of
daily
food,

\VS{16}And
one
of
you
say unto
them,
Depart
in
peace,
be
{\ADD{ye}}
warmed
and
filled;
notwithstanding ye
give
them
not those things which are
needful to the
body;
what
{\ADD{doth it}}
profit?

\VS{17}Even
so
faith,
if it
hath
not
works,
is
dead,
being
alone.

\VS{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.

\VS{19}Thou
believest
that there
is
one
God; thou
doest
well: the
devils
also
believe,
and
tremble.

\VS{20}But wilt
thou
know,
O
vain
man,
that
faith
without
works
is
dead?

\VS{21}Was
not
Abraham
our
father
justified
by
works, when he had
offered
Isaac
his
son
upon the
altar?

\VS{22}Seest
thou
how
faith wrought
with
his
works,
and
by
works
was
faith made
perfect?

\VS{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.

\VS{24}Ye
see
then how
that
by
works a
man is
justified,
and
not
by
faith
only.

\VS{25}Likewise
also
was
not
Rahab the
harlot
justified
by
works, when she had
received the
messengers,
and had
sent
{\ADD{them}}
out
another
way?

\VS{26}For
as the
body
without the
spirit
is
dead,
so
faith
without
works
is
dead
also.




\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}My
brethren,
be
not
many
masters,
knowing
that we shall
receive the
greater
condemnation.

\VS{2}For in many
things we
offend
all.
If any
man
offend
not
in
word, the
same
{\ADD{is}} a
perfect
man,
{\ADD{and}}
able
also to
bridle the
whole
body.

\VS{3}Behold, we
put
bits
in the
horses’
mouths,
that
they may
obey
us;
and we turn
about
their
whole
body.

\VS{4}Behold
also the
ships, which
though
{\ADD{they be}} so
great,
and
{\ADD{are}}
driven
of
fierce
winds, yet are they turned
about
with a very
small
helm,
whithersoever the
governor
listeth.

\VS{5}Even
so the
tongue
is a
little
member,
and boasteth great
things.
Behold, how
great a
matter a
little
fire
kindleth!

\VS{6}And the
tongue
{\ADD{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.

\VS{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:

\VS{8}But the
tongue
can
no
man
tame;
{\ADD{it is}} an
unruly
evil,
full of
deadly
poison.

\VS{9}Therewith bless
we
God,
even the
Father;
and
therewith curse
we
men,
which are
made
after the
similitude of
God.

\VS{10}Out
of the
same
mouth
proceedeth
blessing
and
cursing.
My
brethren, these
things
ought
not
so to
be.

\VS{11}Doth a
fountain send
forth
at the
same
place
sweet
{\ADD{water}}
and
bitter?

\VS{12}Can the fig
tree,
my
brethren,
bear olive
berries?
either a
vine,
figs?
so
{\ADD{can}}
no
fountain both
yield
salt
water
and
fresh.

\VS{13}Who
{\ADD{is}} a wise
man
and endued with
knowledge
among
you? let him
shew out
of a
good
conversation
his
works
with
meekness of
wisdom.

\VS{14}But
if ye
have
bitter
envying
and
strife
in
your
hearts,
glory
not,
and
lie not
against the
truth.

\VS{15}This
wisdom
descendeth
not from
above,
but
{\ADD{is}}
earthly,
sensual,
devilish.

\VS{16}For
where
envying
and
strife
{\ADD{is}},
there
{\ADD{is}}
confusion
and
every
evil
work.

\VS{17}But the
wisdom that
is from
above is
first
pure,
then
peaceable,
gentle,
{\ADD{and}} easy to be
intreated,
full of
mercy
and
good
fruits, without
partiality,
and without
hypocrisy.

\VS{18}And the
fruit of
righteousness is
sown
in
peace of
them that
make
peace.




\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}From
whence
{\ADD{come}}
wars
and
fightings
among
you?
{\ADD{come they}}
not
hence,
{\ADD{even}}
of
your
lusts that
war
in
your
members?

\VS{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.

\VS{3}Ye
ask,
and
receive
not,
because ye
ask
amiss,
that ye may
consume
{\ADD{it}}
upon
your
lusts.

\VS{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.

\VS{5}Do ye
think
that the
scripture
saith in
vain, The
spirit
that
dwelleth
in
us
lusteth
to
envy?

\VS{6}But he
giveth
more
grace.
Wherefore he
saith,
God
resisteth the
proud,
but
giveth
grace unto the
humble.

\VS{7}Submit
yourselves
therefore to
God.
Resist the
devil,
and he will
flee
from
you.

\VS{8}Draw
nigh to
God,
and he will draw
nigh to
you.
Cleanse
{\ADD{your}}
hands,
{\ADD{ye}}
sinners;
and
purify
{\ADD{your}}
hearts,
{\ADD{ye}} double
minded.

\VS{9}Be
afflicted,
and
mourn,
and
weep:
let
your
laughter be
turned
to
mourning,
and
{\ADD{your}}
joy
to
heaviness.

\VS{10}Humble
yourselves in the sight
of the
Lord,
and he shall
lift
you
up.

\VS{11}Speak
not
evil one of
another,
brethren. He
that speaketh
evil
of
{\ADD{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.

\VS{12}There
is
one
lawgiver,
who is
able to
save
and to
destroy:
who
art
thou
that
judgest
another?


\par }{\PP \VS{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:

\VS{14}Whereas ye
know
not
what
{\ADD{shall be}} on the
morrow.
For
what
{\ADD{is}}
your
life? It
is
even a
vapour, that
appeareth
for a little
time,
and
then vanisheth
away.

\VS{15}For
that
ye
{\ADD{ought}} to
say,
If the
Lord
will, we shall
live,
and
do
this,
or
that.

\VS{16}But
now ye
rejoice
in
your
boastings:
all
such
rejoicing
is
evil.

\VS{17}Therefore to him that
knoweth to
do
good,
and
doeth
{\ADD{it}}
not, to
him it
is
sin.




\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Go
to
now,
{\ADD{ye}} rich
men,
weep and
howl
for
your
miseries that shall come
upon
{\ADD{you}}.

\VS{2}Your
riches are
corrupted,
and
your
garments
are
motheaten.

\VS{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.

\VS{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.

\VS{5}Ye have lived in
pleasure
on the
earth,
and been
wanton; ye have
nourished
your
hearts,
as
in a
day of
slaughter.

\VS{6}Ye have
condemned
{\ADD{and}}
killed the
just;
{\ADD{and}} he
doth
not
resist
you.


\par }{\PP \VS{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.

\VS{8}Be
ye
also
patient;
stablish
your
hearts:
for the
coming of the
Lord draweth
nigh.

\VS{9}Grudge
not one
against
another,
brethren,
lest ye be
condemned:
behold, the
judge
standeth
before the
door.

\VS{10}Take,
my
brethren, the
prophets,
who have
spoken in the
name of the
Lord, for an
example of suffering
affliction,
and of
patience.

\VS{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.

\VS{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
{\ADD{your}}
nay,
nay;
lest ye
fall
into
condemnation.

\VS{13}Is
any
among
you
afflicted? let him
pray.
Is
any
merry? let him sing
psalms.

\VS{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:

\VS{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.

\VS{16}Confess
{\ADD{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.

\VS{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.

\VS{18}And he
prayed
again,
and the
heaven
gave
rain,
and the
earth brought
forth
her
fruit.

\VS{19}Brethren,
if
any
of
you do
err
from the
truth,
and
one
convert
him;

\VS{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.


\par }