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| James 1:1 | James the servant of God, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. | James, bondman of God and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which [are] in the dispersion, greeting. | James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. |
| James 1:2 | My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations; | Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations, | Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; |
| James 1:3 | Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience. | knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance. | Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. |
| James 1:4 | And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing. | But let endurance have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. | And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking 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. | But if any one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all freely and reproaches not, and it shall be given to him: | But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally 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. | but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about; | But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. |
| James 1:7 | Therefore let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. | for let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord; | For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; |
| James 1:8 | A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways. | [he is] a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. | a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. |
| James 1:9 | But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation: | But let the brother of low degree glory in his elevation, | But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: |
| James 1:10 | And the rich, in his being low; because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. | and the rich in his humiliation, because as [the] grass's flower he will pass away. | and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall 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. | For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings. | For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings. |
| 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. | Blessed [is the] man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has promised to them that love him. | Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] 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. | Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one. | Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: |
| James 1:14 | But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured. | But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust; | but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. |
| James 1:15 | Then when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death. | then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death. | Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death. |
| James 1:16 | Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren. | Do not err, my beloved brethren. | Be not deceived, my beloved 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. | Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning. | Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning. |
| 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. | According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of *his* creatures. | Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits 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. | So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; | Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: |
| James 1:20 | For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God. | for man's wrath does not work God's righteousness. | for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness 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. | Wherefore, laying aside all filthiness and abounding of wickedness, accept with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. | Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted 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. | But be ye doers of [the] word and not hearers only, beguiling yourselves. | But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding 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. | For if any man be a hearer of [the] word and not a doer, *he* is like to a man considering his natural face in a mirror: | For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: |
| James 1:24 | For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was. | for he has considered himself and is gone away, and straightway he has forgotten what he was like. | for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth 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. | But *he* that fixes his view on [the] perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in [it], being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of [the] work, *he* shall be blessed in his doing. | But he that looketh into the perfect law, the [law] of liberty, and [so] continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. |
| 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. | If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain. | If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his 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. | Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world. | Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world. |
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