James 1

1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.Cross-references: Ex 24:4 · Ex 28:21 · Ex 39:14 · Lev 26:33 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 28:64 · +35 more

2Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,Cross-references: Matt 5:10 · Luke 6:22 · Acts 5:41 · Rom 8:17 · Rom 8:35 · 2Cor 12:9 · +10 more

3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.Cross-references: Rom 2:7 · Rom 5:3 · Rom 8:25 · Rom 8:28 · Rom 15:4 · 2Cor 4:17 · +7 more

4Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.Cross-references: Job 17:9 · Ps 37:7 · Ps 40:1 · Prov 4:8 · Hab 2:3 · Matt 5:48 · +19 more

5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.Cross-references: Ex 31:3 · Ex 31:6 · Ex 36:1 · 1Ki 3:7 · 1Chr 22:12 · 2Chr 1:10 · +23 more

6But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.Cross-references: Gen 49:4 · Matt 21:21 · Mark 11:22 · Eph 4:14 · 1Tim 2:8 · Heb 10:23 · +4 more

7For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.Cross-references: Prov 15:8 · Prov 21:27 · Isa 1:15 · Isa 58:3 · James 4:3

8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:21 · 2Ki 17:33 · 2Ki 17:41 · Isa 29:13 · Hos 7:8 · Hos 10:2 · +5 more

9Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;Cross-references: Deut 15:7 · Deut 15:9 · Deut 15:11 · 1Sam 2:8 · Ps 62:9 · Ps 113:7 · +17 more

10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.Cross-references: Job 14:2 · Ps 37:2 · Ps 37:35 · Ps 90:5 · Ps 102:11 · Ps 103:15 · +11 more

11For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.Cross-references: Job 21:24 · Ps 37:35 · Ps 49:6 · Ps 73:18 · Ps 102:4 · Ps 102:11 · +14 more

12Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.Cross-references: Ex 20:6 · Deut 7:9 · Deut 8:2 · Deut 13:3 · Neh 1:5 · Job 5:17 · +36 more

13Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.Cross-references: Gen 3:12 · Isa 63:17 · Hab 2:12 · Rom 9:19 · James 1:2 · James 1:12

14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Gen 8:21 · Josh 7:21 · 2Sam 11:2 · 1Ki 21:2 · Job 31:9 · +13 more

15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.Cross-references: Gen 2:17 · Gen 3:6 · Gen 3:17 · Gen 4:5 · Job 15:35 · Ps 7:14 · +9 more

16Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.Cross-references: Matt 22:29 · Mark 12:24 · Mark 12:27 · 1Cor 6:9 · Gal 6:7 · Phil 2:12 · +7 more

17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.Cross-references: Gen 1:2 · Gen 1:14 · Gen 41:16 · Gen 41:38 · Ex 4:11 · Ex 31:3 · +51 more

18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.Cross-references: Lev 23:10 · Jer 2:3 · Amos 6:1 · John 1:13 · John 3:3 · Rom 4:17 · +13 more

19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;Cross-references: Neh 8:2 · Neh 8:12 · Neh 8:18 · Neh 9:3 · Neh 9:17 · Prov 8:32 · +36 more

20for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.Cross-references: Num 20:11 · Eph 4:26 · 2Tim 2:24 · James 3:17

21Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.Cross-references: Ps 25:9 · Isa 2:20 · Isa 29:19 · Isa 30:22 · Isa 61:1 · Ezek 18:31 · +28 more

22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.Cross-references: Isa 44:20 · Obad 1:3 · Matt 7:21 · Matt 12:50 · Matt 28:20 · Luke 6:46 · +23 more

23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;Cross-references: Jer 44:16 · Ezek 33:31 · Matt 7:26 · Luke 6:7 · Luke 6:47 · James 2:14

24for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.Cross-references: Judg 8:18 · Matt 8:27 · Luke 1:66 · Luke 7:39 · 1Thess 1:5 · 2Pet 3:11

25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.Cross-references: 1Sam 12:14 · Ps 19:7 · Ps 106:3 · Ps 119:2 · Ps 119:32 · Ps 119:45 · +32 more

26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.Cross-references: Deut 11:16 · Ps 32:9 · Ps 34:13 · Ps 39:1 · Ps 141:3 · Prov 10:19 · +29 more

27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.Cross-references: Job 29:12 · Job 31:15 · Ps 68:5 · Ps 119:1 · Isa 1:16 · Isa 1:23 · +19 more