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For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.","osisRef":"Jas.1.6"},{"verseId":59001007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905).","osisRef":"Jas.1.7"},{"verseId":59001008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"A double minded man _is_ unstable in all his ways.","osisRef":"Jas.1.8"},{"verseId":59001009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:","osisRef":"Jas.1.9"},{"verseId":59001010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.","osisRef":"Jas.1.10"},{"verseId":59001011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"Jas.1.11"},{"verseId":59001012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Blessed _is_ the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) hath promised to them that love him.","osisRef":"Jas.1.12"},{"verseId":59001013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of [God](/person/god_1324): for [God](/person/god_1324) cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:","osisRef":"Jas.1.13"},{"verseId":59001015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.","osisRef":"Jas.1.15"},{"verseId":59001016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"Do not err, my beloved brethren.","osisRef":"Jas.1.16"},{"verseId":59001017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the [Father](/person/god_1324) of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.","osisRef":"Jas.1.17"},{"verseId":59001018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.","osisRef":"Jas.1.18"},{"verseId":59001019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:","osisRef":"Jas.1.19"},{"verseId":59001020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Jas.1.20"},{"verseId":59001021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.","osisRef":"Jas.1.21"},{"verseId":59001022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.","osisRef":"Jas.1.22"},{"verseId":59001023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"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:","osisRef":"Jas.1.23"},{"verseId":59001024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.","osisRef":"Jas.1.24"},{"verseId":59001025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"Jas.1.25"},{"verseId":59001026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"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.","osisRef":"Jas.1.26"},{"verseId":59001027,"verseNum":27,"mdText":"Pure religion and undefiled before [God](/person/god_1324) and the [Father](/person/god_1324) is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, _and_ to keep himself unspotted from the world.","osisRef":"Jas.1.27"}]},{"title":"Jas 2","chapterNum":2,"osisRef":"Jas.2","verses":[{"verseId":59002001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"My brethren, have not the faith of our [Lord](/person/jesus_905) [Jesus](/person/jesus_905) [Christ](/person/jesus_905), _the_ _[Lord](/person/god_1324)_ of glory, with respect of persons.","osisRef":"Jas.2.1"},{"verseId":59002002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;","osisRef":"Jas.2.2"},{"verseId":59002003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:","osisRef":"Jas.2.3"},{"verseId":59002004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?","osisRef":"Jas.2.4"},{"verseId":59002005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not [God](/person/god_1324) chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?","osisRef":"Jas.2.5"},{"verseId":59002006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?","osisRef":"Jas.2.6"},{"verseId":59002007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?","osisRef":"Jas.2.7"},{"verseId":59002008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:","osisRef":"Jas.2.8"},{"verseId":59002009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.","osisRef":"Jas.2.9"},{"verseId":59002010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one _point_, he is guilty of all.","osisRef":"Jas.2.10"},{"verseId":59002011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.","osisRef":"Jas.2.11"},{"verseId":59002012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.","osisRef":"Jas.2.12"},{"verseId":59002013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.","osisRef":"Jas.2.13"},{"verseId":59002014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"What _doth_ _it_ profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?","osisRef":"Jas.2.14"},{"verseId":59002015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,","osisRef":"Jas.2.15"},{"verseId":59002016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be _ye_ warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what _doth_ _it_ profit?","osisRef":"Jas.2.16"},{"verseId":59002017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.","osisRef":"Jas.2.17"},{"verseId":59002018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.","osisRef":"Jas.2.18"},{"verseId":59002019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"Thou believest that there is one [God](/person/god_1324); thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.","osisRef":"Jas.2.19"},{"verseId":59002020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?","osisRef":"Jas.2.20"},{"verseId":59002021,"verseNum":21,"mdText":"Was not [Abraham](/person/abraham_58) our father justified by works, when he had offered [Isaac](/person/isaac_616) his son upon the altar?","osisRef":"Jas.2.21"},{"verseId":59002022,"verseNum":22,"mdText":"Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?","osisRef":"Jas.2.22"},{"verseId":59002023,"verseNum":23,"mdText":"And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, [Abraham](/person/abraham_58) believed [God](/person/god_1324), and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Jas.2.23"},{"verseId":59002024,"verseNum":24,"mdText":"Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.","osisRef":"Jas.2.24"},{"verseId":59002025,"verseNum":25,"mdText":"Likewise also was not [Rahab](/person/rahab_2388) the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent _them_ out another way?","osisRef":"Jas.2.25"},{"verseId":59002026,"verseNum":26,"mdText":"For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.","osisRef":"Jas.2.26"}]},{"title":"Jas 3","chapterNum":3,"osisRef":"Jas.3","verses":[{"verseId":59003001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.","osisRef":"Jas.3.1"},{"verseId":59003002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same _is_ a perfect man, _and_ able also to bridle the whole body.","osisRef":"Jas.3.2"},{"verseId":59003003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.","osisRef":"Jas.3.3"},{"verseId":59003004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Behold also the ships, which though _they_ _be_ so great, and _are_ driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.","osisRef":"Jas.3.4"},{"verseId":59003005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!","osisRef":"Jas.3.5"},{"verseId":59003006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"And the tongue _is_ a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.","osisRef":"Jas.3.6"},{"verseId":59003007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:","osisRef":"Jas.3.7"},{"verseId":59003008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"But the tongue can no man tame; _it_ _is_ an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.","osisRef":"Jas.3.8"},{"verseId":59003009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Therewith bless we [God](/person/god_1324), even the [Father](/person/god_1324); and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Jas.3.9"},{"verseId":59003010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.","osisRef":"Jas.3.10"},{"verseId":59003011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet _water_ and bitter?","osisRef":"Jas.3.11"},{"verseId":59003012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so _can_ no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.","osisRef":"Jas.3.12"},{"verseId":59003013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Who _is_ a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.","osisRef":"Jas.3.13"},{"verseId":59003014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.","osisRef":"Jas.3.14"},{"verseId":59003015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"This wisdom descendeth not from above, but _is_ earthly, sensual, devilish.","osisRef":"Jas.3.15"},{"verseId":59003016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"For where envying and strife _is_, there _is_ confusion and every evil work.","osisRef":"Jas.3.16"},{"verseId":59003017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, _and_ easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.","osisRef":"Jas.3.17"},{"verseId":59003018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.","osisRef":"Jas.3.18"}]},{"title":"Jas 4","chapterNum":4,"osisRef":"Jas.4","verses":[{"verseId":59004001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"From whence _come_ wars and fightings among you? _come_ _they_ not hence, _even_ of your lusts that war in your members?","osisRef":"Jas.4.1"},{"verseId":59004002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.","osisRef":"Jas.4.2"},{"verseId":59004004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with [God](/person/god_1324)? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of [God](/person/god_1324).","osisRef":"Jas.4.4"},{"verseId":59004005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?","osisRef":"Jas.4.5"},{"verseId":59004006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, [God](/person/god_1324) resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.","osisRef":"Jas.4.6"},{"verseId":59004007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Submit yourselves therefore to [God](/person/god_1324). Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.","osisRef":"Jas.4.7"},{"verseId":59004008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Draw nigh to [God](/person/god_1324), and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse _your_ hands, _ye_ sinners; and purify _your_ hearts, _ye_ double minded.","osisRef":"Jas.4.8"},{"verseId":59004009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and _your_ joy to heaviness.","osisRef":"Jas.4.9"},{"verseId":59004010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Humble yourselves in the sight of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905), and he shall lift you up.","osisRef":"Jas.4.10"},{"verseId":59004011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of _his_ brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.","osisRef":"Jas.4.11"},{"verseId":59004012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"There is one [lawgiver](/person/god_1324), who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?","osisRef":"Jas.4.12"},{"verseId":59004013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:","osisRef":"Jas.4.13"},{"verseId":59004014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Whereas ye know not what _shall_ _be_ on the morrow. For what _is_ your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.","osisRef":"Jas.4.14"},{"verseId":59004015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"For that ye _ought_ to say, If the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) will, we shall live, and do this, or that.","osisRef":"Jas.4.15"},{"verseId":59004016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.","osisRef":"Jas.4.16"},{"verseId":59004017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth _it_ not, to him it is sin.","osisRef":"Jas.4.17"}]},{"title":"Jas 5","chapterNum":5,"osisRef":"Jas.5","verses":[{"verseId":59005001,"verseNum":1,"mdText":"Go to now, _ye_ rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon _you_.","osisRef":"Jas.5.1"},{"verseId":59005002,"verseNum":2,"mdText":"Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.","osisRef":"Jas.5.2"},{"verseId":59005003,"verseNum":3,"mdText":"Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.","osisRef":"Jas.5.3"},{"verseId":59005004,"verseNum":4,"mdText":"Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) of sabaoth.","osisRef":"Jas.5.4"},{"verseId":59005005,"verseNum":5,"mdText":"Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.","osisRef":"Jas.5.5"},{"verseId":59005006,"verseNum":6,"mdText":"Ye have condemned _and_ killed the just; _and_ he doth not resist you.","osisRef":"Jas.5.6"},{"verseId":59005007,"verseNum":7,"mdText":"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905). Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.","osisRef":"Jas.5.7"},{"verseId":59005008,"verseNum":8,"mdText":"Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) draweth nigh.","osisRef":"Jas.5.8"},{"verseId":59005009,"verseNum":9,"mdText":"Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.","osisRef":"Jas.5.9"},{"verseId":59005010,"verseNum":10,"mdText":"Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905), for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.","osisRef":"Jas.5.10"},{"verseId":59005011,"verseNum":11,"mdText":"Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of [Job](/person/job_1639), and have seen the end of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905); that the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.","osisRef":"Jas.5.11"},{"verseId":59005012,"verseNum":12,"mdText":"But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and _your_ nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.","osisRef":"Jas.5.12"},{"verseId":59005013,"verseNum":13,"mdText":"Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.","osisRef":"Jas.5.13"},{"verseId":59005014,"verseNum":14,"mdText":"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the [Lord](/person/jesus_905):","osisRef":"Jas.5.14"},{"verseId":59005015,"verseNum":15,"mdText":"And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the [Lord](/person/jesus_905) shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.","osisRef":"Jas.5.15"},{"verseId":59005016,"verseNum":16,"mdText":"Confess _your_ faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.","osisRef":"Jas.5.16"},{"verseId":59005017,"verseNum":17,"mdText":"[Elias](/person/elijah_1131) was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.","osisRef":"Jas.5.17"},{"verseId":59005018,"verseNum":18,"mdText":"And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.","osisRef":"Jas.5.18"},{"verseId":59005019,"verseNum":19,"mdText":"Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;","osisRef":"Jas.5.19"},{"verseId":59005020,"verseNum":20,"mdText":"Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.","osisRef":"Jas.5.20"}]}]}]}},"pageContext":{"lookupName":"jas"}}}