Strengthen your faith in God's word

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James

1. 1:1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
2. 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
6. 1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
7. 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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:
11. 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
15. 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.
16. 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
17. 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:
18. 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
19. 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.
20. 2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
21. 2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
22. 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?
23. 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
24. 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
25. 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.
26. 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
27. 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
28. 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?
29. 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.
30. 3:4 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.
31. 3:6 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.
32. 3:7 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:
33. 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
34. 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
35. 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
36. 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
37. 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
38. 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
39. 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
40. 4:4 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.
41. 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
42. 4:11 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.
43. 5:3 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.
44. 5:4 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.
45. 5:5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
46. 5:7 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.
47. 5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
48. 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
49. 5:11 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.
50. 5:14 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: