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king james study
1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to
the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
temptations;
1:3 Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh
patience.
1:4 But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be
perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth
to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be
given him.
1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and
tossed.
1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing
of the Lord.
1:8 A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.
1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the
flower of the grass he shall pass away.
1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it
withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the
grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man
fade away in his ways.
1:12 Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he
is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord
hath promised to them that love him.
1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God:
for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own
lust, and enticed.
1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and
sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning.
1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that
we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to
hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
1:21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which
is able to save your souls.
1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves.
1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is
like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and
straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a
doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth
not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion
[is] vain.
1:27 Pure religion 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.
2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
[the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons.
2:2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring,
in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile
raiment;
2:3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing,
and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the
poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become
judges of evil thoughts?
2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor
of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he
hath promised to them that love him?
2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you,
and draw you before the judgment seats?
2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are
called?
2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are
convinced of the law as transgressors.
2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in
one [point], he is guilty of all.
2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do
not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou
art become a transgressor of the law.
2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by
the law of liberty.
2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed
no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
2:14 What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he
hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily
food,
2:16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye]
warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things
which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?
2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works:
shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my
faith by my works.
2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the
devils also believe, and tremble.
2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works
is dead?
2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had
offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works
was faith made perfect?
2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham
believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and
he was called the Friend of God.
2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not
by faith only.
2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works,
when she had received the messengers, and had sent [them] out
another way?
2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
without works is dead also.
3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall
receive the greater condemnation.
3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in
word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the
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