The Letter from Ya`akov, Chapter 1
{1:1} Ya`akov, 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 brothers, when you fall into
various temptations, {1:3} Knowing that the testing of your faith
produces patience. {1:4} Let patience 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 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 with 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 save your souls. {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 beholding 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 law, the law 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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