1a JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are the Dispersion, greeting. 2e Count it all joy, my brethren, Cp. Acts 2: when ye fall into manifold temptations; 3 knowing that the proof of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be 'perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

9-11.

See John 7.85.

e See Matt. 5. 12.

1Pet. 1.6. 1 Pet. 1.7. Rom. 5. 3. Cp. ch. 6.

11

36

Heb. 10. &2 Pet.1.6.

il Thess. 5. 23.

See Matt.
5. 48.

5 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. 6 But let him ask in faith, "no1 Kin. 3. thing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. 7 For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; 8P a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways.

9-12.

Prov. 2. 3-6. Wisdom 8. 21-9. 18.

7.7.

See Matt. Prov. 28. 5.

Ecclus. 1.

1,26
& 39. 6.

m Mark 11.
24.

n Matt. 21. 21.

o Cp. Isai.
57.20

& Eph. 4.
14.

9 But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, Cp. 2 Pet. and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so 117 also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

p ch. 4. 8.

2. 14 & 3. 16. r Jer. 9. 23. s Cp. Ps. 102. 4,

31

& 1 Pet. 1. 24.

u ch. 5. 11. Matt. 10.

22.

1 Pet. 3. 14. Cp. Dan. 12. 12.

12 "Blessed is the man that enIsa. 407 dureth temptation: for when he hath been approved, he shall receive "the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him. v Rev. 2. 10 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with & 1 Cor. 9. 8 evil, and he himself tempteth no

& 3. 11.

Cp. Wis dom 4. 2 & 5. 16

25

6

2

man: 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death. 16 Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. 17" Every good 10 gift and every perfect boon is from above, coming down from the Father of lights,. e with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning. 18d Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

с

1911 Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But 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 putting away all filthiness and overflowing of 14.29. 12 wickedness, receive " with meekness the 18 implanted word, " which is able to save your souls. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. 23 For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding 14 his natural face in a mirror: 24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 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. 26 If any man 15 thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart,

5 Or, that a

15 Or,

& Luke S.

21

& John 13.

17.

Ecclus. 4.
10.

2 Mac. 8.
28, 30.
v1 Tim. 5.
22.

1 John 5.
18.

2 Pet. 3.
14.

21 Cor. 2. 8. Cp. Acts

7.2.

y ver. 9.

w

I My brethren, 1hold not the 2 faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, *the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. 2 For if there come into your 2 synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; 3and ye have reLev. 19 gard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool; 43are ye not divided in your own mind, and become judges with evil thoughts? 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren;

& 16. 19. Prov. 24. 23.

15.

Rom. 2. 11. Eph. 6. 9.

al.

1 Pet. 1.17, Cp. Prov.

18. 23. a John 7.24. b 1 Cor. 1. 27, 28. Cp. Job 34. 19.

c3 Cor. 8. 9. Rev. 2.9.

See Luke
12. 21.

Matt. 5.3.

Luke 6. 20 & 12. 32.

12.

See ch. 1.
Cp. 1 Cor.

11.22.
9 Wisdom
2. 10.

Acts 16.19.

i Acts 8. 3
& 17.6
& 18. 12.

Cp. ch.3.6.
Cp. Isai.
63.19
& 65, 1

* Amos 9.
Acts 15.

12

g

did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him? 6 But ye have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and them selves "drag you before the judgement-seats? 7 Do not they blaspheme the honourable name by the which ye are called? 8 Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 but if ye have 'respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall Lev. 19.18, keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all. II For he that said, "Do not commit adultery, said also, "Do not kill. Now if thou dost o See ch. 1. not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. 13 For Pjudgement is without mercy to him that hath shewed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgement.

17.

& Cited from

which see. 7 ver. 1. m Matt. 5. 19. Gal. 3. 10. » Cited from Ex. 20, 14, 13.

25.

p Job 22.
6-11.
Ps. 18. 25,
26.
Prov. 21.
13.
Ezek. 25.
11-14.

Tobit 4.7.
Ecclus. 28.

2-5.
Matt. 6. 15
& 18. 32-35.

Luke 6. 38.

q Cp. ch. 1
22.
r Cp. Job

31. 19, 20.
See Luke
3. 11.

14 What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? 15" If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food,

16 and one of you say unto them, s1 John 2 Go in peace, be ye warmed and 17, 18. filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. 186 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith apart from thy Cp. Rom. works, and I "by my works will shew thee my faith. 19" Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the 8 devils also believe, and shudder. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren? 21 * Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? 229 Thou seest that "faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect; 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, a And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God. 24 Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. 25 And in like manner was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, din that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

2

99. Mark 1. 24 & 5.7. Luke 4.

4.

Acts 16. 17

12, 16-18.

17.

19. 15. Gen Heb. 11. see Thess. a Mac. 2. Rom. 4. 3. Gal. 36 Gen. 15, 6.

1.3.

52.

Cited from

b2 Chr. 20.7. Isai. 41. S. Cp. Wis

e

dom 7. 27. Heb. 11. Josh. 2.

31.

1-22
& 6. 23.

Matt. 23,

2. 20, 21

1.7.

1 Tim. Kin. Prov. 20.9.

46.

Eccles. 7. 20.

1 John 1.8

p. Mett See ch. 1. P. 22.9.

12.37.

26.

1 Be not many teachers, my 3 brethren, knowing that we shall receive 10 heavier judgement. 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. 3 Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. 4 Behold, the ships also, though they are so great, and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth. 5 So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, 11 how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And the tongue is 12 a fire: 13 the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth is.

2 Or, assembly

a ch. 2. 18.

q ver. 16. Acts 5. 17. Rom. 2. 8. 2 Cor. 12, 20. Gal. 5. 20.

& 2. 3.
Cp. Rom.

13. 13.

r ch. 1. 17. * Jude 19 (mg. for mg.).

on fire the wheel of 1 nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every 2 kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed 3 by 4 mankind: 8 but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, "which are made after the likeness of God: 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. II Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? 12 can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield

sweet.

13 Who is wise and understandpch. 1. 21. ing among you? let him shew by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your Phil. 1. 17 heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not ra wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, 58 sensual, 6 devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But "the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then "peaceable," gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without 7 variance, without hypocrisy. 18 And a the fruit of righteousness is sown Cp. Luke in peace for them that make peace.

Cp. 1 Kin. 2 Thess.

22.22

2. 9, 10
& 1 Tim.
4. 1
& Rev. 2.
24.

u Cp. 1 Cor.
2. 6, 7.
v Heb. 12.
11.

w Phil. 4. 5 (mg.).

6. 36. y ch. 2. 4 (Gk.).

z Rom. 12.9. a Prov. 11. 18.

Isni. 32. 17.

Amos 6. 12.

Gal. 6. 7. 8.

1 Pet. 2. 11. d Cp.1 John 5. 14.

I Whence come wars and 4 whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even Hos. 10. 12. of your pleasures that war in your Phil... members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: Matt. 5.. ye kill, and covet, and cannot obe Rom. 7.23. tain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask e Isa. 45. damiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures. 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. 5 Or think ye that the scripture 10 speaketh in vain? 2 Cor. 6. 16. 119 Doth the spirit" which 12 he made

Jer. 2. 2.

f John 15.
19.

1 John 2.
15.
Cp. Matt.
6. 24.

9 Cp. Jer. 3. 14

& Hos. 2.19
(for mg.).
1 Cor. 6.

19.

1 Or, birth demoniacal.

to dwell in us long unto envying? 6 But he giveth 13 more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8'Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. m Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and "purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

II"Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 One only is the lawgiver and "judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but "who art thou that judgest thy neighbour?

1 Pet. 2. 1. Cp. ch.3.9. See

Matt. 7. 1. t Isai. 33. 22.

Touch. 5.9.

into

13 Go to now, ye that say, day or to-morrow we will go this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 14 For that ye ought to say, "If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. 16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil. 17 To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

5

v Matt. 10.

w Rom.

27.1.

28. 14.4. Prov. Luke 12. 1820 Cp. Job 7.7 2.4

y Ps. 102. 3.

& Wisdom

Acts 13.

& 5. 9-14.

41 (mg.). a See Acts 18. 21.

5.6.

Cp.1 Cor.
Cp. Luke

12. 47, 48
& 2 Pet. 2.
21.

See John
9. 41.
d Luke 6.

11. 28 & Amos 6. 1 & 1 Tim.

6.9. Rom. 3. 16.

Job 13. 28. Isai. 50. 9. Matt. 6.

I Go to now, dye rich, weep 24. and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony 15 against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them

19.

21.

19, 20. Matt. 6. Luke 12. Rom. 2. 5. Cp. Tobit Cp. ver. ijob 24. 10. See Lev.

4. 9. 8, 9.

19. 13. j Deut. 24. 15.

13

*Rom.9.29. Cp. Job 21. & Luke 16. & 2 Pet. 2.

19

13.

m 1 Tim.

5.6.1

o ch. 4. 2. Р.Ср. Wisdom 2. 10-20

& Acts 3.
14.

11. 14.

4 See Deut. 1 Thess. 3.

13.

s 1 Pet. 4. 7.

Cp. Rom. & Phil. 4. & Heb. 10.

13. 11, 12

25, 37.

Matt.

7.1.

u Cp. 1 Pet.

4.8

5

m

that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5'Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in "a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until 2 it receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; "stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, 'that ye be not judged: behold, "the judge standeth before the doors. 10 Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the Cp. 1 Cor. prophets who spake in the name of the Lord. 11 Behold, we call them blessed which endured: ye have heard of the 3 patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Job 1. 21, Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

12.

Rev. 22.

v Matt. 24. 23. Mark 13. 29.

v

8

12 But above all things, my brethren, a swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea

13 Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise. 14 Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with Acts 19.18. oil in the name of the Lord: 15 and 13 the prayer of faith shall save him. 18. that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working. 17 Elijah was a man of like " passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again; and the heaven gave 1 Cp. Matt. rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

6

19 My brethren, 'if any among you do err from the truth, and one m convert him; 208 let him know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way "shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

1 PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, cin sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the e 2 Pet. 1.2. blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

1 Thess.
4.3.

d Heb. 10. 22 & 12. 24.

Dan. 4. 1. Jude 2. g 2 Cor. 1.3. Eph. 1. 3.

a fit. 3. 3. i ver. 23. j ch. 3. 21. Cp. 1 Cor. 15. 20.

Rom. 8.17. & Wisdom m Cp. Col.

1Cp. ch. 5. 4

6. 12.

1.5

& 2 Tim. 4. 8.

d

h

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, "reserved in heaven for you, 5 who by the power

2 Or, he

of God are guarded "through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold 9 temptations, 7 that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, might be found unto praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ: 8" whom not having seen ye love; "on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and 10 full of glory: 9 receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 10 Concerning which salva

31-33, al
1 Kin. 17.1

A Acts 14.15.

& 18. 1. Ecclus. 48.

j Luke 4.

23 25

* 1 Kin. 18. 42. 45. 2 Esd. 7. 39 [109].