dynamicbible/bibles/asv/59-1.json

{"ch":1,"vss":[{"v":1,"w":[{"t":"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting."}]},{"v":2,"w":[{"t":"Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;"}]},{"v":3,"w":[{"t":"Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience."}]},{"v":4,"w":[{"t":"And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing."}]},{"v":5,"w":[{"t":"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."}]},{"v":6,"w":[{"t":"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."}]},{"v":7,"w":[{"t":"For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;"}]},{"v":8,"w":[{"t":"a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways."}]},{"v":9,"w":[{"t":"But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:"}]},{"v":10,"w":[{"t":"and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away."}]},{"v":11,"w":[{"t":"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."}]},{"v":12,"w":[{"t":"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."}]},{"v":13,"w":[{"t":"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:"}]},{"v":14,"w":[{"t":"but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed."}]},{"v":15,"w":[{"t":"Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death."}]},{"v":16,"w":[{"t":"Be not deceived, my beloved brethren."}]},{"v":17,"w":[{"t":"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."}]},{"v":18,"w":[{"t":"Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures."}]},{"v":19,"w":[{"t":"Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"}]},{"v":20,"w":[{"t":"for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."}]},{"v":21,"w":[{"t":"Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls."}]},{"v":22,"w":[{"t":"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves."}]},{"v":23,"w":[{"t":"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:"}]},{"v":24,"w":[{"t":"for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was."}]},{"v":25,"w":[{"t":"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."}]},{"v":26,"w":[{"t":"If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man`s religion is vain."}]},{"v":27,"w":[{"t":"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."}]}]}