1James, the servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

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Ezekiel 12:15, Ezekiel 12:15, 1 Peter 1:1, 1 Peter 1:1, John 7:35

2My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations:

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1 Peter 1:6, 1 Peter 1:8, 1 Peter 1:6, 1 Peter 1:8, James 1:12

3Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience

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Romans 5:3, Romans 5:4, Romans 5:3, Romans 5:4, Hebrews 10:36

4And patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

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1 Peter 5:10, 1 Peter 5:10, Matthew 5:48, Luke 21:19, Matthew 5:48

5But 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.

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Proverbs 2:3, Proverbs 2:6, Proverbs 2:3, Proverbs 2:6, John 15:7

6But 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.

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Matthew 21:21, Matthew 21:22, Matthew 21:21, Matthew 21:22, Hebrews 11:6

7Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

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James 4:3, James 4:3, Isaiah 58:3, Isaiah 58:4, Isaiah 58:3

8A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.

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1 Kings 18:21, 1 Kings 18:21, Matthew 6:24, Matthew 6:24, James 4:8

9But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:

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Jeremiah 9:23, Jeremiah 9:24, Jeremiah 9:23, Jeremiah 9:24, James 2:5

10And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

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1 Peter 1:24, 1 Peter 1:24, 1 John 2:17, 1 John 2:17, Job 14:2

11For 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.

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Isaiah 40:7, Isaiah 40:8, Isaiah 40:7, Isaiah 40:8, Psalms 37:35

12Blessed 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.

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1 Peter 5:10, 1 Peter 5:10, 1 Peter 1:6, 1 Peter 1:8, 1 Peter 1:6

13Let 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.

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Habakkuk 2:12, Habakkuk 2:13, Habakkuk 2:12, Habakkuk 2:13, James 1:12

14But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

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Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Ephesians 4:22

15Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

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Psalms 7:14, Psalms 7:14, Job 15:35, Job 15:35, Romans 5:12

16Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.

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James 1:19, James 1:19, Galatians 6:7, Philippians 2:12, Galatians 6:7

17Every 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.

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John 3:27, John 3:27, Matthew 7:11, Matthew 7:11, Hebrews 13:8

18For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creature.

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Romans 8:29, Romans 8:31, Romans 8:29, Romans 8:31, 1 Peter 1:23

19You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger.

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Proverbs 17:27, Proverbs 17:27, Proverbs 21:23, Proverbs 21:23, Proverbs 14:29

20For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.

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2 Timothy 2:24, 2 Timothy 2:25, 2 Timothy 2:24, 2 Timothy 2:25, Ephesians 4:26

21Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

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Ephesians 4:22, Ephesians 4:22, Ephesians 1:13, Ephesians 1:13, 1 Peter 2:11

22But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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Romans 2:13, Romans 2:13, Luke 6:46, Luke 6:48, Luke 6:46

23For 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.

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Matthew 7:26, Matthew 7:27, Matthew 7:26, Matthew 7:27, Ezekiel 33:31

24For he beheld himself and went his way and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

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2 Peter 3:11, 2 Peter 3:11, Luke 1:66, Luke 7:39, Luke 1:66

25But 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.

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Luke 11:28, Luke 11:28, John 13:17, John 13:17, 2 Corinthians 3:17

26And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

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Ephesians 4:29, Psalms 141:3, Ephesians 4:29, Psalms 141:3, 1 Peter 3:10

27Religion 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.

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Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 1:17, 1 John 3:17