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          DASV: James 1    

1 From James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to
the twelve tribes dispersed among the nations. Greetings.

2 Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you experience all sorts
of trials;
3 because you know that the testing of your faith works
endurance.
4 Let endurance have its full effect, that you may be perfect
and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives
to all generously and without any rebuke for asking, and it
will be given to him.
6 But let the one who asks, ask in faith without doubting, for
the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed
around by the wind.
7 Do not let that person think that he will receive anything
from the Lord;
8 since his loyalties are divided. He is unstable in all his
ways.
9 But let the poor believer take pride in his high position.
10 But the rich should take pride in God’s humbling, because
as the flower of the field, he will pass away.
11 For the sun rises with the scorching heat, and the grass withers,
and the flower drops off and its beauty fades. So also will the
rich fade away.
12 Blessed is the one who endures testing; for when he has passed
the test, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised
to those who love him.
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God
cannot be tempted with evil and he himself tempts no one.
14 But each one is tempted, when he is lured away and enticed by
his own desires.
15 Then desire, when it conceives gives birth to sin, and sin,
when it is mature, gives birth to death.
16 Do not be deceived, my dear brothers.
17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, no change like
a shifting shadow.
18 By his own will he gave us birth through the word of truth, that
we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

19 Know this, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be swift to hear,
slow to speak, slow to anger,
20 for sinful human anger does not produce the righteousness
of God.
21 Therefore, put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness,
receive with humility the implanted word, which will save your souls.
22 Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is
like a person looking at his reflection in the mirror.
24 He sees himself, and then goes away immediately forgetting what
he looked like.
25 But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and
perseveres, acting not as a hearer who forgets but a doer who works,
this one will be blessed in what he does.
26 If anyone thinks he is religious, yet does not bridle his tongue
but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.
27 Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this:
to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to
keep oneself unstained from the world.

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