1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 12:151 Pet 1:1John 7:35Acts 8:1Acts 26:7Acts 15:13Acts 15:23Deut 28:64Gal 2:9Acts 21:18
2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 1:6-8Jas 1:122 Cor 12:9-10Matt 5:10-12Luke 6:22-23Phil 1:292 Pet 2:9Rom 8:17-18Rev 2:10Col 1:24
3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rom 5:3-4Heb 10:36Col 1:11Rom 8:282 Cor 4:171 Pet 1:72 Pet 1:6Rom 15:4Heb 12:1Rom 8:25
4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 5:10Luke 21:19Matt 5:482 Tim 3:17Gal 6:9Heb 13:21Jas 5:7-11Hab 2:3Ps 37:7Ps 40:1
5If 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 2:3-6John 15:7Jer 29:12-13Prov 3:5-71 John 5:14-152 Chr 1:10Matt 7:7-11Jas 3:171 Kgs 3:7-12John 14:13
6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 21:21-22Heb 11:6Mark 11:22-24Eph 4:14Heb 10:23Heb 13:91 Tim 2:8
7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 4:3Prov 15:8Isa 1:15Isa 58:3-4Prov 21:27
8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 18:21Matt 6:24Jas 4:8Isa 29:132 Pet 2:142 Kgs 17:412 Pet 3:162 Kgs 17:33Hos 7:8-11
9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 9:23-24Jas 2:5-6Prov 19:12 Cor 6:10Ps 113:7-8Ps 62:9Rev 2:9Luke 1:52Prov 17:5Rom 5:2-3
10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 1:241 John 2:17Job 14:21 Tim 6:17Matt 5:3Ps 103:15Isa 40:6Jas 4:14Matt 6:30Ps 90:5-6
11For 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 40:7-8Ps 37:35-36Luke 16:19-25Mark 4:6Jas 5:1-7Ps 49:6-14Luke 12:16-21Matt 13:61 Cor 7:311 Pet 1:4
12Blessed 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 5:101 Pet 1:6-8Rev 2:10Jas 5:11Rom 8:28Matt 10:221 Cor 9:252 Tim 4:8Jas 2:51 Pet 3:14
13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 1:12Hab 2:12-13Jas 1:2Rom 9:19-20Gen 3:12Isa 63:17
14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mark 7:21-22Eph 4:22Matt 15:18Heb 3:13Prov 4:23Rom 7:13Jas 4:1-2Matt 5:28Isa 44:20Gen 6:5
15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 7:14Job 15:35Rom 5:12-21Gen 2:17Isa 59:4Gen 3:6Rom 6:21-23Mic 2:1-3Gen 3:17-19Gen 4:5-8
16Do not err, my beloved brethren. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gal 6:7Jas 1:19Col 2:8Col 2:4Heb 13:1Phil 2:121 Cor 6:92 Tim 2:18Jas 2:5Phil 4:1
17Every 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:John 3:27Matt 7:11Heb 13:8John 8:12Num 23:19Ps 84:111 John 1:5Prov 2:6Jas 3:17Eph 2:8
18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rom 8:29-311 Pet 1:23John 3:3-5John 1:131 Pet 1:32 Thess 2:13-14Eph 2:4-5Rev 14:4Eph 1:12Jer 2:3
19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 17:27Prov 21:23Prov 14:29Prov 10:19Prov 18:13Prov 13:3Eph 4:26Prov 16:32Eccl 7:8-9Prov 15:18
20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Tim 2:24-25Eph 4:26Jas 3:17-18Num 20:11-12
21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 4:22Eph 1:131 Pet 2:11John 6:63Ps 25:9Col 3:5-81 Pet 2:1Heb 12:1Jas 4:82 Tim 3:15-17
22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rom 2:13Luke 6:46-48John 13:17Jas 4:171 John 2:3Luke 11:28Jas 2:14-20Matt 12:50Col 3:17Matt 7:21-27
23For 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 7:26-27Jas 2:14-26Ezek 33:31-32Luke 6:47Jer 44:16
24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Pet 3:11Luke 1:66Luke 7:391 Thess 1:5Judg 8:18Matt 8:27
25But 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 11:28John 13:172 Cor 3:17-181 Pet 2:16Luke 6:47-49Gal 5:1Jas 2:12John 8:31-321 Cor 15:581 Tim 4:16
26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 4:29Ps 141:31 Pet 3:10Eph 5:4Prov 19:1Ps 34:13Prov 10:31Prov 10:19Col 4:6Jas 1:22
27Pure 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 1:16-171 John 3:17-19Gal 6:9-10Rom 12:2Matt 25:34-46Isa 58:6-71 John 2:15-17Job 31:15-201 Tim 5:4Job 29:12-13