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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 Godbey New Testament</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="../">Godbey New Testament</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Godbey New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/james/1-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Greeting from James<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../jude/1.htm">Jude 1:1–2</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>James, the servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting.<p> <A name="3"></a><p class="hdg">Rejoicing in Trials<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../philippians/1.htm#12">Philippians 1:12–20</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all cheerfully and upbraids none; and it will be given unto 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, doubting as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>the double-minded man, the most unstable in all his ways.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But let the humble brother boast in his exaltation: <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the sun with a scorching wind has risen, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its countenance perished: so indeed the rich man will pass away in his ways.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love.<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 being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God can not be tempted with evils, and he tempts no one: <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>but each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out, and enticed. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the lust, conceiving, brings forth sin; and sin, having been perfected, produces death. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be some first fruit of his creations.<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>Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Therefore having laid aside all filthiness and excess of evil, receive with meekness the engrafted 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 one is 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>for he recognized himself, and has gone away, and immediately forgot what kind he was. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy in his work.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Godbey New Testament (1902)<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>