James 1 (NET)

James 1:1¹From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 12:151 Pet 1:1John 7:35Acts 8:1Acts 26:7Acts 15:13Acts 15:23Deut 28:64Gal 2:9Acts 21:18

James 1:2²My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:3³because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:4⁴And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:5⁵But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:6⁶But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:21-22Heb 11:6Mark 11:22-24Eph 4:14Heb 10:23Heb 13:91 Tim 2:8

James 1:7⁷For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 4:3Prov 15:8Isa 1:15Isa 58:3-4Prov 21:27

James 1:8⁸since he is a double-minded individual, unstable in all his ways.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:9⁹Now the believer of humble means should take pride in his high position.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:10¹⁰But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:11¹¹For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:12¹²Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:13¹³Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:12Hab 2:12-13Jas 1:2Rom 9:19-20Gen 3:12Isa 63:17

James 1:14¹⁴But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 7:21-22Eph 4:22Matt 15:18Heb 3:13Prov 4:23Rom 7:13Jas 4:1-2Matt 5:28Isa 44:20Gen 6:5

James 1:15¹⁵Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:16¹⁶Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 6:7Jas 1:19Col 2:8Col 2:4Heb 13:1Phil 2:121 Cor 6:92 Tim 2:18Jas 2:5Phil 4:1

James 1:17¹⁷All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:27Matt 7:11Heb 13:8John 8:12Num 23:19Ps 84:111 John 1:5Prov 2:6Jas 3:17Eph 2:8

James 1:18¹⁸By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:19¹⁹Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 17:27Prov 21:23Prov 14:29Prov 10:19Prov 18:13Prov 13:3Eph 4:26Prov 16:32Eccl 7:8-9Prov 15:18

James 1:20²⁰For human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 2:24-25Eph 4:26Jas 3:17-18Num 20:11-12

James 1:21²¹So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:22²²But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:23²³For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 7:26-27Jas 2:14-26Ezek 33:31-32Luke 6:47Jer 44:16

James 1:24²⁴For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:11Luke 1:66Luke 7:391 Thess 1:5Judg 8:18Matt 8:27

James 1:25²⁵But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out—he will be blessed in what he does.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

James 1:26²⁶If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:29Ps 141:31 Pet 3:10Eph 5:4Prov 19:1Ps 34:13Prov 10:31Prov 10:19Col 4:6Jas 1:22

James 1:27²⁷Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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