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Catholic Epistle of St. James the Apostle
chapter 1
1
James
the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which
are scattered abroad, greeting.
2 My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into
divers temptations;
3 Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh
patience.
4 And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be
perfect and entire, failing in nothing.
5 But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God,
who giveth to all men abundantly, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he
that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the
wind.
7 Therefore let not that man think that he shall
receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.
9 But let the brother of low condition glory in his
exaltation:
10 And the rich, in his being low; because as the
flower of the grass shall he pass away.
11 For the sun rose with a burning heat, and parched
the grass, and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof
perished: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for
when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath
promised to them that love him.
13 Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is
tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.
14 But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence,
being drawn away and allured.
15 Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth
forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.
16 Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.
17 Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from
above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor
shadow of alteration.
18 For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word
of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.
19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be
swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.
20 For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.
21 Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and
abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is
able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves.
23 For if a man be a hearer of the word, and not a
doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.
24 For he beheld himself, and went his way, and
presently forgot what manner of man he was.
25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of
liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a
doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 And if any man think himself to be religious, not
bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the
Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and
to keep one's self unspotted from this world.
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