{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/james/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:39:22.544Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"James","bookSlug":"james","chapter":1,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraides not; and it shall be given him."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it wither the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Do not err, my beloved brothers."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no ficklenss, neither shadow of turning."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But be you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a glass:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"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."}],"citation":{"inline":"James 1 (AKJV)","markdown":"[James 1](https://primebible.com/akjv/james/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/james/1 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}