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From">a</a></span> James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:1 Or Christ">b</a></span> </p> <p class="reg">To: The twelve tribes in the Dispersion.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:1 i.e. the Jewish communities outside the land of Israel">c</a></span> </p> <p class="reg">Greetings.</p> <p class="heading">Responding Wisely to Life</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But you must let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to everyone generously without a rebuke, and it will be given to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But he must ask in faith, without any doubts, for the one who has doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Such a person 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>He is a double-minded man, unstable in all he undertakes.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:8 Lit. in all his ways">d</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A brother of humble means should rejoice in his having been exalted, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and a rich person in his having been humbled, because he will fade away like a wild flower. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower in it drops off, and its beauty is gone. That is how the rich person will fade away in his pursuits.</p> <p class="heading">Trial and Temptation</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>How blessed is the man who endures temptation! When he has passed the test, he will receive the victor’s crown of life that God<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:12 Lit. he; other mss. read God; still other mss. read the Lord">e</a></span> has promised to those who keep on loving him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When someone is tempted, he should not say, “I am being tempted by God,” because God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Instead, each person is tempted by his own desire, being lured and trapped by it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.</p> <p class="heading">Practical Christian Living</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do not be<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:16 Or Don’t be">f</a></span> deceived, my dear brothers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Every generous act of giving and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father who made the heavenly lights,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:17 Lit. the Father of lights">g</a></span> in whom there is no inconsistency or shifting shadow. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In accordance with his will he made us his children by the word of truth, so that we might become the most important of his creatures.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:18 Lit. a kind of first fruits among his creatures">h</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You must understand this, my dear brothers. Everyone should 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>For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore, rid yourselves of everything impure and every expression of wickedness, and with a gentle spirit welcome the word planted in you that can save your souls.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Keep on being obedient to<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:22 Or being doers of">i</a></span> the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For if anyone hears the word but is not obedient to it, he is like a man who looks at himself in a mirror <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and studies himself carefully, and then goes off and immediately forgets what he looks like. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But the one who looks at the perfect law of freedom and remains committed to it—thereby demonstrating that he is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of what that law<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:25 Lit. what it">j</a></span> requires—will be blessed in what he does.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If anyone thinks that he is religious and does not bridle his tongue, but instead deceives himself,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:26 Lit. deceives his own heart">k</a></span> his religion is worthless. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/james/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>A religion that is pure and stainless according to<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:27 Lit. stainless in the sight of">l</a></span> God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 1:1 The Gk. lacks <i>From</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 1:1 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 1:1 i.e. the Jewish communities outside the land of Israel<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 1:8 Lit. <i>in all his ways</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 1:12 Lit. <i>he</i>; 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