1James, the servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.stylusRevelation 22:16, Revelation 22:16, Revelation 22:6, Revelation 22:6, Galatians 1:122My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations:stylus1 Corinthians 1:6, 1 Corinthians 1:6, John 21:24, Revelation 12:17, John 19:353Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patiencestylusLuke 11:28, Luke 11:28, Revelation 22:10, Revelation 22:10, Romans 13:114And patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.stylusIsaiah 11:2, Psalms 90:2, Isaiah 11:2, Psalms 90:2, John 1:15But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.stylusPsalms 89:27, Psalms 89:27, Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 9:14, 1 John 1:76But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.stylusRevelation 5:10, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 20:6, Revelation 20:6, Exodus 19:67Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.stylusMatthew 24:30, Matthew 24:30, Zechariah 12:10, Zechariah 12:10, Daniel 7:138A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.stylusIsaiah 44:6, Isaiah 44:6, Revelation 22:13, Revelation 22:13, Isaiah 43:109But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:stylusActs 14:22, Revelation 3:10, Acts 14:22, Revelation 3:10, John 16:3310And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.stylusRevelation 21:10, Revelation 21:10, Revelation 4:1, Revelation 4:2, 2 Corinthians 12:211For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.stylusHabakkuk 2:2, Colossians 4:15, Colossians 4:16, Revelation 3:1, Revelation 1:412Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him.stylusZechariah 4:2, Zechariah 4:2, Exodus 25:37, Exodus 25:37, Revelation 1:2013Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils: and he tempteth no man.stylusDaniel 7:13, Daniel 7:13, Daniel 10:5, Daniel 10:6, Daniel 10:1614But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.stylusDaniel 10:6, Daniel 10:6, Daniel 7:9, Revelation 19:12, Daniel 7:915Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.stylusEzekiel 43:2, Ezekiel 43:2, Daniel 10:6, Daniel 10:6, Revelation 14:216Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.stylusHebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:12, Revelation 2:16, Revelation 2:16, Revelation 19:1517Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.stylusIsaiah 44:6, Isaiah 44:6, Revelation 22:13, Daniel 10:8, Daniel 10:1018For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creature.stylusRomans 6:9, Romans 6:9, Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 7:25, Romans 14:819You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.stylusRevelation 4:1, Revelation 4:11, Revelation 4:1, Revelation 4:11, Revelation 1:1120For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.stylusRevelation 2:1, Revelation 2:1, Revelation 3:1, Revelation 3:1, Revelation 1:1621Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.stylus22But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.stylus23For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass.stylus24For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what manner of man he was.stylus25But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.stylus26And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.stylus27Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.stylus