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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>James 1 KJV</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/kjv/james/1.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><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="/combine/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="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">KJV</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">King James Bible</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">Greetings from James<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../jude/1.htm">Jude 1:1-2</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.</p> <a name="2" id="2"></a><p class="hdg">Rejoicing in Trials<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../philippians/1.htm#12">Philippians 1:12-20</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Knowing <i>this</i>, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But let patience have <i>her</i> perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all <i>men</i> liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>A double minded man <i>is</i> unstable in all his ways.</p> <p class="hdg">Contrast of the Rich and Poor</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Blessed <i>is</i> 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.</p> <p class="hdg">Perseverance in Temptation</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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: <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do not err, my beloved brethren. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.</p> <p class="hdg">Hearing and Doing</p><p class="reg"><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: <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. <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 unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth <i>therein</i>, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion <i>is</i> vain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, <i>and</i> to keep himself unspotted from the world.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">King James Bible<br /><br />Text courtesy of <a href="//www.bibleprotector.com/"> BibleProtector.com</a><br /><br />Section Headings Courtesy <a href="//intbible.com/">INT Bible</a><br />© 2012, Used by Permission<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></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 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