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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 318, 14 November 2025   
      
   1) James 1, James 2, James 3, James 4, James 5   
      
   James 1   
      
   Salutation   
      
   1 (Jn 7:35; Ac 12:17) James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,   
   To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad:   
   Greetings.   
      
   [1] James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve   
   tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.   
      
   Faith and Wisdom   
      
   2 (Jas 1:12) My brothers, count it all joy   
   when you fall into diverse temptations,   
   3 (Heb 10:36; 2Pe 1:6) knowing that the trying   
   of your faith develops patience.   
   4 (Mt 5:48; Lk 21:19) But let patience perfect its work,   
   that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.   
   5 (Pr 2:3-6; Jn 15:7) If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God,   
   who gives to all men liberally and without criticism,   
   and it will be given to him.   
   6 (Eph 4:14) But let him ask in faith, without wavering. For he who wavers   
   is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed with the wind.   
   7 Let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord.   
   8 (Jas 4:8; 2Pe 2:14) A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.   
      
   [2] My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;   
   [3] Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.   
   [4] But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and   
   entire, wanting nothing.   
   [5] If 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.   
   [6] But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like   
   a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.   
   [7] For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.   
   [8] A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.   
      
   Poverty and Riches   
      
   9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,   
   10 (1Co 7:31; 1Pe 1:24) but the rich in that he is made low,   
   because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.   
   11 (Isa 40:7-8) For the sun rises with a burning heat   
   and it withers the grass, and its flowers fall, and its beauty perishes.   
   So will the rich man wither away in his ways.   
      
   [9] Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:   
   [10] But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the   
   grass he shall pass away.   
   [11] 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.   
      
   Trial and Temptation   
      
   12 (Jas 2:5; 1Co 9:25; 2Ti 4:8) Blessed is the man who endures temptation,   
   for when he is tried, he will receive the crown of life,   
   which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.   
   13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God,"   
   for God cannot be tempted with evil; neither does He tempt anyone.   
   14 But each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.   
   15 (Job 15:35; Ps 7:14) Then, when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin;   
   and when sin is finished, it brings forth death.   
   16 (Jas 1:19; 2:5) Do not err, my beloved brothers.   
   17 (Mal 3:6; Nu 23:19; Jn 3:27) Every good gift and every perfect gift   
   is from above and comes down from the Father of lights,   
   with whom is no change or shadow of turning.   
   18 (1Pe 1:23; Jn 1:13; Rev 14:4) Of His own will He brought us forth   
   with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits   
   of His creatures.   
      
   [12] Blessed 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.   
   [13] Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot   
   be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:   
   [14] But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and   
   enticed.   
   [15] Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it   
   is finished, bringeth forth death.   
   [16] Do not err, my beloved brethren.   
   [17] Every 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.   
   [18] Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a   
   kind of firstfruits of his creatures.   
      
   Hearing and Doing the Word   
      
   19 (Pr 10:19; 14:29) Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift   
   to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,   
   20 for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.   
   21 (Eph 1:13; 4:22) Therefore lay aside all filthiness   
   and remaining wickedness and receive with meekness the engrafted word,   
   which is able to save your souls.   
   22 (Ro 2:13; Lk 6:46-48) Be doers of the word and not hearers only,   
   deceiving yourselves.   
   23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer,   
   he is like a man viewing his natural face in a mirror.   
   24 He views himself, and goes his way,   
   and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.   
   25 (Jas 2:12; Jn 13:17) But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty,   
   and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work,   
   this man will be blessed in his deeds.   
   26 (Ps 34:13; 141:3) If anyone among you seems to be religious   
   and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's   
   religion is vain.   
   27 (Isa 1:23; Ro 12:2) Religion that is pure and undefiled before God,   
   the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction   
   and to keep oneself unstained by the world.   
      
   [19] Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to   
   speak, slow to wrath:   
   [20] For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.   
   [21] Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and   
   receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.   
   [22] But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own   
   selves.   
   [23] 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:   
   [24] For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth   
   what manner of man he was.   
   [25] 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.   
   [26] 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.   
   [27] Pure 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.   
      
   James 2   
      
   Warning Against Partiality   
      
   1 (1Co 2:8; Lev 19:15) My brothers, have faith in our Lord Jesus Christ,   
   the Lord of glory, without partiality.   
   2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly,   
   and also a poor man in ragged clothing comes in,   
      
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