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Greeting to the Twelve Tribes
James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad:
Greetings.
James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad:
Greetings.
Profiting from Trials
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
Greetings from James
This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I am writing to the “twelve tribes” — Jewish believers scattered abroad.
Greetings!
Faith and Endurance
Dear brothers and sisters,a when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.
For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.
For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;
Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.
The Perspective of Rich and Poor
Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation,
Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation,
but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.
And those who are rich should boast that God has humbled them. They will fade away like a little flower in the field.
For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.
The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away. In the same way, the rich will fade away with all of their achievements.
Loving God Under Trials
Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.
Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Listening and Doing
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.
for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
So get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;
For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror.
for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like.
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.
If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.