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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>James 1 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/james/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/james/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > James 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hebrews/13.htm" title="Hebrews 13">◄</a> James 1 <a href="../james/2.htm" title="James 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/james/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Greetings from James</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.</p><p class="reg">I am writing to the “twelve tribes”—Jewish believers scattered abroad.</p><p class="reg">Greetings!</p><p class="hdg">Faith and Endurance</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Dear brothers and sisters,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Believers who are<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> poor have something to boast about, for God has honored them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And those who are rich should boast that God has humbled them. They will fade away like a little flower in the field. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away. In the same way, the rich will fade away with all of their achievements.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And remember, when you are being tempted, do not say, “God is tempting me.” God is never tempted to do wrong,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> and he never tempts anyone else. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a></p><p class="hdg">Listening and Doing</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Human anger<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> does not produce the righteousness<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> God desires. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:2 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">brothers;</span><span class="ft"> also in 1:16, 19.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">The brother who is.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">God should not be put to a test by evil people.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:17a </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">from above, from the Father of lights.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:17b </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">He never changes, as a shifting shadow does.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:18 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">we became a kind of firstfruit of his creatures.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:20a </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">A man’s anger.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:20b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the justice.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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