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<A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>but let patience have <i>it's</i> perfect work, that ye may be entirely perfect, failing in nothing.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask <i>it</i> of God, who giveth to all <i>men</i> liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting; for he that doubteth is like a wave of the sea blown about and tossed by the wind. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>A double-minded man <i>is</i> inconstant in all his ways.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let the brother <i>that is</i> low rejoice in his exaltation: but the rich in his humiliation, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For when the sun is risen with <i>it's</i> sultry heat, it drieth up the grass, and the flower of, it falleth, and the beauty of it's appearance is lost: so shall the rich man fade away in his projects.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Happy <i>is</i> the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Good and Perfect Gifts<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Let no one that is tempted say, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted by evils, and He tempteth no one. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But every <i>man</i> is tempted, <i>when</i> drawn aside and insnared by his own <i>vehement</i> desire. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then desire having conceived bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Be not <i>therefore</i> deceived, my beloved brethren: <i>for</i> every good gift, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and every perfect gift, <i>but no evil one,</i> is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, nor shadow of turning: <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>who hath of his own will begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.<p> <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">Hearing and Doing<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>for the wrath of man doth not practise the righteousness of God. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Laying aside therefore all filthiness, and excess of malice, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>who beheld himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what manner of man he was. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But he that looketh well into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth <i>therein,</i> being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this <i>man</i> shall be blessed in his deed.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If any among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, this man's devotion <i>is</i> vain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Pure and uncorrupt religion before God and <i>our</i> Father is this, to take care of orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Worsley's New Testament (1770)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../hebrews/13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hebrews 13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hebrews 13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../james/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="James 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="James 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>