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James Chapter 1

James
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James

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James begins by addressing believers who have been called to a good work, urging them to be pure and free from deceit. He warns that true faith is proven by actions, not just words, and that the letter will be tested with trials to reveal genuine faith. The chapter emphasizes that faith without works is dead.

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(1) James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
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Matthew 10:3Matthew 13:55Mark 3:18Luke 6:15Acts 1:13Acts 12:17Acts 15:13Acts 21:18Galatians 1:19Galatians 2:9Galatians 2:12Jude 1:1

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Numbers 7:87Revelation 21:12Exodus 24:4Exodus 28:21Exodus 39:14Numbers 7:84

(2) My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
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James 1:12Matthew 5:10Matthew 5:11Matthew 5:12Luke 6:22Luke 6:23Acts 5:41Romans 8:17Romans 8:18Romans 8:35Romans 8:36Romans 8:37

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Judges 5:30Isaiah 9:3

(3) Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
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Romans 5:3Romans 5:4Romans 8:28II Corinthians 4:17Romans 2:7Romans 8:25Romans 15:4Colossians 1:11II Thessalonians 1:4II Thessalonians 3:5Hebrews 10:36Hebrews 12:1

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Romans 5:3Galatians 2:16Romans 1:17James 2:18

(4) But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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James 5:7James 5:8James 5:9James 5:10James 5:11Job 17:9Psalms 37:7Psalms 40:1Habakkuk 2:3Matthew 10:22Luke 8:15Luke 21:19

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Deuteronomy 25:15Psalms 101:2Matthew 5:48I John 4:18Hebrews 7:19

(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.
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Exodus 31:3Exodus 31:6Exodus 36:1Exodus 36:2Exodus 36:3Exodus 36:4I Kings 3:7I Kings 3:8I Kings 3:9I Kings 3:11I Kings 3:12Job 28:12

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Ecclesiastes 2:26Ecclesiastes 7:12I Kings 4:30

(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.
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Matthew 21:22Mark 11:22Mark 11:23Mark 11:24I Timothy 2:8Hebrews 11:6Genesis 49:4Ephesians 4:14Hebrews 10:23Hebrews 13:9II Peter 2:17Jude 1:12

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I Kings 19:11John 16:23Leviticus 10:15Numbers 6:20Romans 1:17James 2:18

(7) For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
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James 4:3Proverbs 15:8Proverbs 21:27Isaiah 1:15Isaiah 58:3Isaiah 58:4

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Romans 12:3

(8) A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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James 4:8I Kings 18:21II Kings 17:33II Kings 17:41Isaiah 29:13Hosea 7:8Hosea 7:9Hosea 7:10Hosea 7:11Hosea 10:2Matthew 6:22Matthew 6:24

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Revelation 18:6

(9) Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
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James 2:5James 2:6Deuteronomy 15:7Deuteronomy 15:9Deuteronomy 15:11Psalms 62:9Proverbs 17:5Proverbs 19:1Luke 1:52Jeremiah 9:23Jeremiah 9:24Romans 5:2

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Luke 1:52Psalms 62:9

(10) But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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Isaiah 57:15Isaiah 66:2Matthew 5:3Philippians 3:8I Timothy 6:17James 4:14Job 14:2Psalms 37:2Psalms 37:35Psalms 37:36Psalms 90:5Psalms 90:6

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I Peter 1:24Isaiah 40:7James 1:11

(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.
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Isaiah 49:10Jonah 4:7Jonah 4:8Matthew 13:6Mark 4:6James 5:1James 5:2James 5:3James 5:4James 5:5James 5:6James 5:7

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I Peter 1:24Isaiah 40:7Romans 11:6Isaiah 40:8James 1:10I Corinthians 15:10

(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.
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James 1:2James 1:3James 1:4James 5:11Job 5:17Psalms 94:12Psalms 119:67Psalms 119:71Psalms 119:75Proverbs 3:11Proverbs 3:12Hebrews 6:15

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Luke 6:32I Kings 8:56Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:16I John 4:18

(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:
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James 1:2James 1:12Genesis 3:12Isaiah 63:17Habakkuk 2:12Habakkuk 2:13Romans 9:19Romans 9:20

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Hebrews 2:18Hebrews 4:15Exodus 17:7Numbers 14:22Deuteronomy 6:16Psalms 78:18

(14) But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
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James 4:1James 4:2Genesis 6:5Genesis 8:21Joshua 7:21Joshua 7:22Joshua 7:23Joshua 7:24II Samuel 11:2II Samuel 11:3I Kings 21:2I Kings 21:3

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James 1:13

(15) Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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Genesis 3:6Genesis 4:5Genesis 4:6Genesis 4:7Genesis 4:8Job 15:35Psalms 7:14Isaiah 59:4Micah 2:1Micah 2:2Micah 2:3Matthew 26:14

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Proverbs 30:33I Samuel 2:6Isaiah 26:5Isaiah 52:7Matthew 7:17Matthew 12:35

(16) Do not err, my beloved brethren.
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Matthew 22:29Mark 12:24Mark 12:27Galatians 6:7Colossians 2:4Colossians 2:8II Timothy 2:18James 1:19James 2:5Philippians 2:12Philippians 4:1Hebrews 13:1

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Song of Solomon 5:9

(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.
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James 1:5James 3:15James 3:17Genesis 41:16Genesis 41:38Genesis 41:39Exodus 4:11Exodus 4:12Exodus 31:3Exodus 31:4Exodus 31:5Exodus 31:6

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John 3:31Exodus 23:8Deuteronomy 16:19Matthew 5:24Matthew 23:19Romans 5:15

(18) Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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John 1:13John 3:3John 3:4John 3:5Romans 4:17Romans 8:29Romans 8:30Romans 8:31Romans 9:15Romans 9:16Romans 9:17Romans 9:18

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Genesis 7:14Leviticus 11:22Genesis 1:25Genesis 6:20Genesis 4:18I Chronicles 8:33

(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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Nehemiah 8:2Nehemiah 8:3Nehemiah 8:12Nehemiah 8:13Nehemiah 8:14Nehemiah 8:18Nehemiah 9:3Proverbs 8:32Proverbs 8:33Proverbs 8:34Proverbs 8:35Ecclesiastes 5:1

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Exodus 4:10Song of Solomon 5:9Proverbs 14:29

(20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
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James 3:17James 3:18Numbers 20:11Numbers 20:12II Timothy 2:24II Timothy 2:25

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Romans 9:30Romans 10:3

(21) Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
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Isaiah 2:20Isaiah 30:22Ezekiel 18:31Romans 13:12Romans 13:13Ephesians 4:22Colossians 3:5Colossians 3:6Colossians 3:7Colossians 3:8Hebrews 12:1I Peter 2:1

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Zechariah 12:12Ezekiel 13:18Zechariah 12:13Matthew 19:12Ezekiel 13:19Ezekiel 13:20

(22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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James 4:17Matthew 7:21Matthew 7:22Matthew 7:23Matthew 7:24Matthew 7:25Matthew 12:50Matthew 28:20Luke 6:46Luke 6:47Luke 6:48Luke 11:28

(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:
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James 2:14James 2:15James 2:16James 2:17James 2:18James 2:19James 2:20James 2:21James 2:22James 2:23James 2:24James 2:25

(24) For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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Judges 8:18Matthew 8:27Luke 1:66Luke 7:39I Thessalonians 1:5II Peter 3:11

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Proverbs 7:22

(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.
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Proverbs 14:15Isaiah 8:20II Corinthians 13:5Hebrews 12:15James 2:12Psalms 19:7Psalms 19:8Psalms 19:9Psalms 19:10Psalms 119:32Psalms 119:45Psalms 119:96

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Revelation 10:6

(26) If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
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Proverbs 14:12Proverbs 16:25Luke 8:18I Corinthians 3:18Galatians 2:6Galatians 2:9Galatians 6:3James 1:19James 3:2James 3:3James 3:4James 3:5

(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.
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James 3:17Psalms 119:1Matthew 5:8Luke 1:6I Timothy 1:5I Timothy 5:4Job 29:12Job 29:13Job 31:15Job 31:16Job 31:17Job 31:18

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John 15:19Titus 1:15John 1:10John 3:17John 17:14I John 2:15

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