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The Letter from Jacob, Chapter 1
{1:1} Jacob, a servant of God and of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, to
the twelve tribes which are in the Diaspora: Greetings. {1:2} Count it
all joy, my [1>]brothers[<1], when you fall into various temptations,
{1:3} knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. {1:4}
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and
complete, lacking in nothing. {1:5} But if any of you lacks wisdom,
let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach;
and it will be given to him. {1:6} But let him ask in faith, without
any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by
the wind and tossed. {1:7} For let that man not think that he will
receive anything from the Lord. {1:8} He is a double-minded man,
unstable in all his ways.
{1:9} But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high
position; {1:10} and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like
the flower in the grass, he will pass away. {1:11} For the sun arises
with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it
falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the
rich man fade away in his pursuits.
{1:12} Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has
been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord
promised to those who love him. {1:13} Let no man say when he is
tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and
he himself tempts no one. {1:14} But each one is tempted, when he is
drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. {1:15} Then the lust, when it
has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings
forth death. {1:16} Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers. {1:17}
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from
the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning
shadow. {1:18} Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of
truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
{1:19} So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to
hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; {1:20} for the anger of man
doesn't produce the righteousness of God. {1:21} Therefore, putting
away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with
humility the implanted word, which is able to [2>]save your souls[<2].
{1:22} But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your
own selves. {1:23} For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a
doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; {1:24}
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind
of man he was. {1:25} But he who looks into the perfect Torah of
freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of
the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
{1:26} If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he
doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion
is worthless. {1:27} Pure religion and undefiled before our God and
Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their
affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:2} The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may
also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
[2] {1:21} or, preserve your life.
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