king james study



 11  James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the 
twelve tribes which are scattered abroad greeting .

 12  My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers 
temptations .

 13  Knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience 
.

 14  But let patience have her perfect work that ye may be 
perfect and entire wanting nothing .

 15  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 .

 16  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 .

 17  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing 
of the Lord .

 18  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways .

 19  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted 
.

 110  But the rich in that he is made low because as the flower 
of the grass he shall pass away .

 111  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 .

 112  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 .

 113  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 .

 114  But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own 
lust and enticed .

 115  Then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and 
sin when it is finished bringeth forth death .

 116  Do not err my beloved brethren .

 117  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 .

 118  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that we 
should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures .

 119  Wherefore my beloved brethren let every man be swift to 
hear slow to speak slow to wrath .

 120  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God .

 121  Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of 
naughtiness and receive with meekness the engrafted word which 
is able to save your souls .

 122  But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving 
your own selves .

 123  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 .

 124  For he beholdeth himself and goeth his way and straightway 
forgetteth what manner of man he was .

 125  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 .

 126  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 .

 127  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 .

* 21  My brethren have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ 
the Lord of glory with respect of persons .

 22  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 .

 23  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 .

 24  Are ye not then partial in yourselves and are become judges 
of evil thoughts .

 25  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 .

 26  But ye have despised the poor Do not rich men oppress you 
and draw you before the judgment seats .

 27  Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are 
called .

 28  If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture Thou 
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself ye do well .

 29  But if ye have respect to persons ye commit sin and are 
convinced of the law as transgressors .

 210  For whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in 
one point he is guilty of all .

 211  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 .

 212  So speak ye and so do as they that shall be judged by the 
law of liberty .

 213  For he shall have judgment without mercy that hath showed 
no mercy and mercy rejoiceth against judgment .

 214  What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath 
faith and have not works can faith save him .

 215  If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily 
food .

 216  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 .

 217  Even so faith if it hath not works is dead being alone .

 218  Yea a man may say Thou hast faith and I have works show me 
thy faith without thy works and I will show thee my faith by my 
works .

 219  Thou believest that there is one God thou doest well the 
devils also believe and tremble .

 220  But wilt thou know O vain man that faith without works is 
dead .

 221  Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had 
offered Isaac his son upon the altar .

 222  Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works 
was faith made perfect .

 223  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 .

 224  Ye see then how that by works a man is justified and not 
by faith only .

 225  Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works 
when she had received the messengers and had sent them out 
another way .

 226  For as the body without the spirit is dead so faith 
without works is dead also .

* 31  My brethren be not many masters knowing that we shall 
receive the greater condemnation .

 32  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 whole 
body .

 33  Behold we put bits in the horses' mouths that they may obey 
us and we turn about their whole body .

 34  Behold also the ships which though they be so great and are 
driven of fierce winds yet are they turned about with a very 
small helm whithersoever the governor listeth .

 35  Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great 
things Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth .

 36  And the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity so is the 
tongue among our members that it defileth the whole body and 
setteth on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of 
hell .

 37  For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and 
of things in the sea is tamed and hath been tamed of mankind .

 38  But the tongue can no man tame it is an unruly evil full of 
deadly poison .

 39  Therewith bless we God even the Father and therewith curse 
we men which are made after the similitude of God .

 310  Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing My 
brethren these things ought not so to be .

 311  Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water 
and bitter .

 312  Can the fig tree my brethren bear olive berries either a 
vine figs so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh .

 313  Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you let 
him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of 
wisdom .

 314  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts 
glory not and lie not against the truth .

 315  This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly 
sensual devilish .

 316  For where envying and strife is there is confusion and 
every evil work .

 317  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure then 
peaceable gentle and easy to be entreated full of mercy and good 
fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy .

 318  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them 
that make peace .

* 41  From whence come wars and fightings among you come they 
not hence even of your lusts that war in your members .

 42  Ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot 
obtain ye fight and war yet ye have not because ye ask not .

 43  Ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may 
consume it upon your lusts .

 44  Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the 
friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore 
will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God .

 45  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain The spirit 
that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy .

 46  But he giveth more grace Wherefore he saith God resisteth 
the proud but giveth grace unto the humble .

 47  Submit yourselves therefore to God Resist the devil and he 
will flee from you .

 48  Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you Cleanse your 
hands ye sinners and purify your hearts ye double minded .

 49  Be afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned 
to mourning and your joy to heaviness .

 410  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall 
lift you up .

 411  Speak not evil one of another brethren He that speaketh 
evil of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the 
law and judgeth the law but if thou judge the law thou art not a 
doer of the law but a judge .

 412  There is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy 
who art thou that judgest another .

 413  Go to now ye that say To day or to morrow we will go into 
such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get 
gain .

 414  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow For what 
is your life It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little 
time and then vanisheth away .

 415  For that ye ought to say If the Lord will we shall live 
and do this or that .

 416  But now ye rejoice in your boastings all such rejoicing is 
evil .

 417  Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not 
to him it is sin .

* 51  Go to now ye rich men weep and howl for your miseries that 
shall come upon you .

 52  Your riches are corrupted and your garments are motheaten .

 53  Your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall 
be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were 
fire Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days .

 54  Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your 
fields which is of you kept back by fraud crieth and the cries 
of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord 
of sabaoth .

 55  Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton ye 
have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter .

 56  Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not 
resist you .

 57  Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord 
Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the 
earth and hath long patience for it until he receive the early 
and latter rain .

 58  Be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of 
the Lord draweth nigh .

 59  Grudge not one against another brethren lest ye be 
condemned behold the judge standeth before the door .

 510  Take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the name 
of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of 
patience .

 511  Behold we count them happy which endure Ye have heard of 
the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord that the 
Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy .

 512  But above all things my brethren swear not neither by 
heaven neither by the earth neither by any other oath but let 
your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into condemnation .

 513  Is any among you afflicted let him pray Is any merry let 
him sing psalms .

 514  Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the 
church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the 
name of the Lord .

 515  And the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord 
shall raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall be 
forgiven him .

 516  Confess your faults one to another and pray one for 
another that ye may be healed The effectual fervent prayer of a 
righteous man availeth much .

 517  Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and he 
prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the 
earth by the space of three years and six months .

 518  And he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth 
brought forth her fruit .

 519  Brethren if any of you do err from the truth and one 
convert him .

 520  Let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the 
error of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a 
multitude of sins .

  



 

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