James 1
1:1James, bondman of God and the Lord Jesus Christ,, to the twelve tribes, to the ones in the dispersion, Hail!
1:2Esteem it all joy, my brethren, whenever you should fall into various tests!
1:3knowing that the proving of the belief of yours manufactures endurance;
1:4and let endurance have its perfect work! that you should be perfect and entire, with nothing missing.
1:5And if anyone of you miss wisdom, let him ask of the giving God! to all simply, and not berating, and it shall be given to him.
1:6But let him ask in belief, scrutinizing nothing! For the one scrutinizing is like a swell of the sea driven by wind and being blown about.
1:7For let not that man imagine that he shall receive anything from the Lord!
1:8he is a double-minded man, confused in all his ways.
1:9But let the humble brother boast in his stature,
1:10and the rich in his humiliation! for as the flower of grass, he will pass away.
1:11For the sun rose with the burning wind, and dried the grass, and its flower fell, and the beauty of its countenance perished; so also the rich one in his goings shall wither.
1:12Blessed is a man who endures test; for becoming unadulterated, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to the ones loving him.
1:13Let no one being tested say that, From God I am tested! For God is beyond testing by evils, and he himself tests no one.
1:14But each is tested by his own desire, being dragged away and being entrapped.
1:15So then the desire having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin being perpetrated, engenders death.
1:16Do not be misled, my beloved brethren!
1:17Every good portion and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father of the lights, of whom there is no alteration or shaded circuit.
1:18Willingly he engendered us by word of truth, for us being certain first-fruit of the ones of his creations.
1:19So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick in the hearing, slow in the speaking, slow in anger!
1:20For man's anger does not manufacture righteousness of God.
1:21Therefore, having put aside all filthiness and abundance of evil, in gentleness, receive the implanted word! the one being able to deliver your souls.
1:22But become doers of the word! and not only listeners, misleading yourselves.
1:23For if any is a listener of the word, and not a doer, this one is like a man contemplating the face of his creation in a mirror;
1:24for he contemplated himself, and went forth, and immediately forgot what he was like.
1:25But the one having leaned over into the perfect law, the one of the freedom, and remained, this one is not becoming a forgetful listener, but a doer of work, this one shall be blessed in his doing.
1:26If anyone seems to be religious among you, and not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one religion is in vain.
1:27Religion pure and undefiled before the God and father is this -- to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself spotless from the world.