Douay Bible - James Chapter 1

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

James 1:2
My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations;

James 1:3
Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

James 1:4
And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

James 1:5
But 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.

James 1:6
But 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.

James 1:7
Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

James 1:8
A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways.

James 1:9
But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:

James 1:10
And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

James 1:11
For 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.

James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.

James 1:13
Let 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.

James 1:14
But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.

James 1:15
Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

James 1:16
Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.

James 1:17
Every 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.

James 1:18
For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.

James 1:19
You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.

James 1:20
For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.

James 1:21
Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

James 1:23
For 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.

James 1:24
For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

James 1:25
But 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.

James 1:26
And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

James 1:27
Religion 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.