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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v59_1_1"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.1" class="v59_1_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jas.1.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> From James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v59_1_1">Greetings to all God's people scattered over the whole world.</span></p><h3 class="s">Faith and Wisdom</h3><p class="par"><span class="v59_1_2"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.2" class="v59_1_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jas.1.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> My friends, consider yourselves fortunate when all kinds of trials come your way, </span><span class="v59_1_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.3" class="v59_1_3">3</span>for you know that when your faith succeeds in facing such trials, the result is the ability to endure. </span><span class="v59_1_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.4" class="v59_1_4">4</span>Make sure that your endurance carries you all the way without failing, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. </span><span class="v59_1_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.5" class="v59_1_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jas.1.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God, who will give it to you; because God gives generously and graciously to all. </span><span class="v59_1_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.6" class="v59_1_6">6</span>But when you pray, you must believe and not doubt at all. Whoever doubts is like a wave in the sea that is driven and blown about by the wind. </span><span class="v59_1_7"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.7-Jas.1.8" class="v59_1_7">7-8</span>If you are like that, unable to make up your mind and undecided in all you do, you must not think that you will receive anything from the Lord.</span></p><h3 class="s">Poverty and Riches</h3><p class="par"><span class="v59_1_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.9" class="v59_1_9">9</span>Those Christians who are poor must be glad when God lifts them up, </span><span class="v59_1_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.10" class="v59_1_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jas.1.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and the rich Christians must be glad when God brings them down. For the rich will pass away like the flower of a wild plant. </span><span class="v59_1_11"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.11" class="v59_1_11">11</span>The sun rises with its blazing heat and burns the plant; its flower falls off, and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way the rich will be destroyed while they go about their business.</span></p><h3 class="s">Testing and Tempting</h3><p class="par"><span class="v59_1_12"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.12" class="v59_1_12">12</span>Happy are those who remain faithful under trials, because when they succeed in passing such a test, they will receive as their reward the life which God has promised to those who love him. </span><span class="v59_1_13"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.13" class="v59_1_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jas.1.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> If we are tempted by such trials, we must not say, “This temptation comes from God.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. </span><span class="v59_1_14"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.14" class="v59_1_14">14</span>But we are tempted when we are drawn away and trapped by our own evil desires. </span><span class="v59_1_15"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.15" class="v59_1_15">15</span>Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v59_1_16"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.16" class="v59_1_16">16</span>Do not be deceived, my dear friends! </span><span class="v59_1_17"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.17" class="v59_1_17">17</span>Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning. </span><span class="v59_1_18"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.18" class="v59_1_18">18</span>By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures.</span></p><h3 class="s">Hearing and Doing</h3><p class="par"><span class="v59_1_19"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.19" class="v59_1_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jas.1.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Remember this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry. </span><span class="v59_1_20"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.20" class="v59_1_20">20</span>Human anger does not achieve God's righteous purpose. </span><span class="v59_1_21"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.21" class="v59_1_21">21</span>So get rid of every filthy habit and all wicked conduct. Submit to God and accept the word that he plants in your hearts, which is able to save you.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v59_1_22"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.22" class="v59_1_22">22</span>Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice. </span><span class="v59_1_23"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.23" class="v59_1_23">23</span>If you listen to the word, but do not put it into practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they are. </span><span class="v59_1_24"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.24" class="v59_1_24">24</span>They take a good look at themselves and then go away and at once forget what they look like. </span><span class="v59_1_25"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.25" class="v59_1_25">25</span>But if you look closely into the perfect law that sets people free, and keep on paying attention to it and do not simply listen and then forget it, but put it into practice—you will be blessed by God in what you do.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v59_1_26"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.26" class="v59_1_26">26</span>Do any of you think you are religious? If you do not control your tongue, your religion is worthless and you deceive yourself. </span><span class="v59_1_27"><span class="reftext" id="Jas.1.27" class="v59_1_27">27</span>What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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