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. 1:6 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.
4. 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
5. 1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
6. 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
12. 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.
13. 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
14. 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:
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 2:1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
18. 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:
19. 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?
20. 2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
21. 2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
22. 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
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. 2:16 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?
28. 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
29. 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
30. 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.
31. 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?
32. 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
33. 3:1 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
34. 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 whole body.
35. 3:3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
36. 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.
37. 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
38. 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.
39. 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:
40. 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
41. 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
42. 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
43. 3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
44. 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
45. 3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
46. 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.
47. 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
48. 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.
49. 4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
50. 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.