{"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/asv/james/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T11:32:07.464Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","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 of the Dispersion, greeting."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"and 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 ariseth with the scorching wind, and 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 goings."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord 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, and he himself tempteth no man:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Be not deceived, my beloved brethren."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Ye know this , my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world."}],"citation":{"inline":"James 1 (ASV)","markdown":"[James 1](https://primebible.com/asv/james/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/james/1 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}