Verse 1
James 1:1
World English Bible
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James, a servant of God (Elohim) and of the Lord Yashua (Jesus) Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.
Original Language Text
greek
Ἰάκωβος θεοῦ καὶ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ δοῦλος ταῖς δώδεκα φυλαῖς ταῖς ἐν τῇ διασπορᾷ χαίρειν.
English Translation
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, greetings.
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Chapter 1 Context
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James, a servant of God (Elohim) and of the Lord Yashua (Jesus) Christ, to the twelve tribes which a...
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Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
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knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
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Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God (Elohim), who gives to all liberally and without...
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But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven...
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For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
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He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
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But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
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and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
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For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and t...
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Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown...
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Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God (Elohim),” for God (Elohim) can’t be tempted...
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But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
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Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death....
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Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with wh...
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Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits o...
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So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
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for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God (Elohim).
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Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the impl...
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But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
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For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face i...
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for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
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But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but...
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If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives...
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Pure religion and undefiled before our God (Elohim) and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and...
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