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CHAP. I.
Wee are to reioyce vnder the Crosse, 5 To aske patience of God, 13 And in our trials not to impute our weakenesse, or sinnes vnto him, 19 but rather to hearken to the word, to meditate in it, and to doe thereafter. 26 Otherwise men may seeme, but neuer be truely religious.
2My brethren, count it all ioy when ye fall into diuers temptations,
3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience,
4But let patience haue her perfect worke, that ye may be perfect, and entier, wanting nothing.
7For let not that man thinke that he shall receiue any thing of the Lord.
8A double minded man is vnstable in all his wayes.
9Let the brother of low degree, reioyce in that he is exalted:9
10But the rich, in that hee is made low: because as the floure of the grasse he shall passe away.
13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with euill, neither tempteth he any man.13
14But euery man is tempted, when hee is drawen away of his owne lust, and entised.
16Doe not erre, my beloued brethren.
19Wherefore my beloued brethren, let euery man bee swift to heare, slow to speake, slow to wrath.
20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousnesse of God.
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers onely, receiuing your owne selues.
24For hee beholdeth himselfe, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what maner of man he was.
25But who so looketh into the perfect Law of libertie, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetfull hearer, but a doer of the worke, this man shall be blessed in his deed.25
Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for James Chapter 1
9 Or, glory.
13 Or, euils.
25 Or, doing.
* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania