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So, also, shall the rich man fade away in his ways.<CM><p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Blessed is the man that endures trial: for, being approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who 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 say, when he is tempted, My temptation is from God; for God can not be tempted by evils, and he himself tempts no man. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desire, and is deluded. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So, then, desire, when it has conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when it is matured, brings forth death.<CM> <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, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor slightest trace of turning. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Of his own will, he begot us with the word of truth, in order that we might be, as it were, the first-fruits of his creatures.<CM><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>So, then, 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 produces not the righteousness of God. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness, and every excess caused by malice, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.<CM> <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 that looks at 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 looks at himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what sort of person he is. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But he that looks intently into the perfect law of liberty, and remains constant, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his deed.<CM><p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If any one among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain. <span class="reftext"><a href="/james/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Religion, pure and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: To visit the fatherless 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">Anderson's New Testament (1865)<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>